Underground Railroad Lecture / Saturday, February 9th

1:30 p.m. / New Garden Friends Meeting. 2019 is the 200th anniversary of the first known activity in North Carolina on what came to be known as the Underground Railroad. Two Guilford College historians, Adrienne Israel and James Shields, will share about that history. Following their presentation on the significance of the UGRR for both the African-American and Quaker communities, there will be guided tours of the UGRR woods on the Guilford College campus and…

Honoring Martin Luther King, Jr. / Monday, January 21st

New Gardeners are encouraged to go downtown together to view or march in the Martin Luther King Parade at 11 a.m. on Monday, January 21. We owe it to our friends of color to stand on our Testimony of Equality as white allies to respect the heroic Martin Luther King. Raleigh’s Crossroads UMC has invited us again to march with them on the parade route from Benbow Professional Center down MLK drive. We can meet…

Lunch & Learn / January 20

12:15 – 2:00 p.m. / Brotherhood Room / Families and all are invited to bring your lunch to Brotherhood room to watch four short animated movies – stories from African American history, for ages 5-10 (educational for adults, too). All four movies last just over one hour, which leaves time for discussion. – March On: The Day My Brother Martin Changed the World – Martin’s Big Words – ROSA (Nikki Giovanni’s telling of Rosa Parks’…