Upcoming Events
Past Events
September 15, 2020
Capital Jewish Museum: Profs and Pints Online: Black Colleges & Jewish Refugees
Profs and Pints Online and the Capital Jewish Museum co-present: “Black Colleges and Jewish Refugees,” a look at how scholars who fled Hitler found rewarding new lives at Historically Black Colleges and Universities, with Lillie J. Edwards, professor emerita of history African American studies at Drew University.
As part of the groundbreaking festival for the Capital Jewish Museum, Profs and Pints and the museum are teaming up to offer you a glimpse at a riveting and uplifting chapter of American history, one that forged a strong alliance between those who resisted European anti-Semitism and those who protested American racism. Together we will discover the critical and empowering nexus between Black students, Jewish refugee scholars, and civil rights.
Tuesday, November 27, 2018, 7:00 pm - 8:30 pm
Bethel AME Church presents A Time for Burning
Film screening of A Time for Burning (1967), a documentary centered around a Reverend’s idea to have the families of his all-white church have dinner in the homes of families of Hope Lutheran Church, a black congregation a little more than a mile away. Dr. Lillie Edwards (Drew University, retired) will engage the audience in drawing parallels between what happened in Omaha, Nebraska in the film and NJ/Morris County history and current events.
Morristown and Morris Township Library
1 Miller Rd., Morristown, NJ
October 14, 2018 - From Civil Rights to Black Lives Matter: How Did We Get Here?
This presentation and discussion will take us on a historical journey that asks, “Have Black Lives Mattered?” I will demonstrate how our nation constructed race to deny and compromise the humanity of Black people in systemic and systematic ways that have endured into the 21stcentury.
As people of faith, we are called to swim against the rising tide of our nation’s history of racism and its enduring legacies. We are challenged not only to “love our neighbor as ourselves,” but also to define “who is our neighbor” in ways that honor, celebrate, and protect the humanity of Black lives.
October 12, 2018 - “The AME Church in New Jersey: Reconsidering its Role and Legacy” 5pm – 6pm
Lillie Johnson Edwards, Professor Emerita of History and African American Studies, Moderator.
Marking the 175th anniversary of the founding of Bethel AME Church in Morristown, NJ, Dr. Dennis C. Dickerson, who is the James M. Lawson, Jr. Professor of History at Vanderbilt University and former Historiographer of the AME Church, will deliver a lecture on the history of the AME Church in New Jersey. Dr. Betty Livingston Adams, recent post-doctoral fellow at Rutgers University and author of Black Women’s Christian Activism: Seeking Social Justice in a Northern Suburb, will respond, placing the Bethel AME congregation into the larger context of AME history. Chapel at Seminary Hall, Drew University, Madison, NJ (public/adults) FREE
Saturday, June 9, 2017, 3:30 pm – 5:00 pm
Organizer and Facilitator, Lillie Johnson Edwards, Ph.D., Professor Emerita of History and African American Studies
“Journey to the Beloved Community: Community Conversation on Race”
Morristown Church-on-the-Green (UMC)
Morristown, NJ
FREE