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
