Newport Middle Passage Project announces:

Summer 2021 Speaker Series

This is the third year of the Newport Middle Passage Speaker Series which this summer fields six speakers on topics of interest to all audiences.

• Wed, June 16, at 6:30 PM : Dr. Fred Zilian, “African American Unfreedom”  – online
• Wed., July 7: Afua Ansong & Jo-Ann Reid, “African American Poetry” at the Redwood Library
• Wed., July 21: Dr. Akeia de Barros Gomes, “Colonizing Black Female Bodies” at the Redwood Library
• Fri., August 13: Veronica Mays, “Quilt Artist”
• Tue., August 24: Kenneth Blane, “Arts in the Park”
• Wed., September 8: Peter Fay, “R.I. Mariners of Color” at Seaman’s Institute