Due to the weather forecasting possible thunderstorms, the community celebration has been moved to First Parish in Lexington
First Parish
7 Harrington Rd
Lexington MA 02421
Association of Black Citizens of Lexington
Due to the weather forecasting possible thunderstorms, the community celebration has been moved to First Parish in Lexington
First Parish
7 Harrington Rd
Lexington MA 02421
241st Anniversary of Massachusetts Emancipation Day
Bowman Elementary School
9 Philip Rd, Lexington, MA 02421
ACROSS Lexington Route M Loop
A Family Friendly Trail Walk of 3.3 Miles
8:00 AM – Registration & Storytelling
8:30 AM – Walk starts
Register at qwdhike4freedom2024.racewire.com
Hear the story of Quock Walker’s life and judicial victories while celebrating the 241st Anniversary of Massachusetts Emancipation Day.
This event will run from 8:00 AM – 10:00 AM.
Visitors Center Lawn
1875 Massachusetts Ave
Lexington MA 02420
Quock Walker Day celebrates the Massachusetts Supreme Court decision of July 8, 1783, that found a White enslaver guilty of assault on Quock Walker, a freedom seeking Black man, and agreed with Chief Justice Cushing that the ideas of slavery and perpetual servitude were incompatible with the state constitution.
Community Celebration Main Stage
11 AM – Opening Ceremony
12 pm -West African Dance Workshopwith Crocodile River Music
1 pm – Crocodile River Music Concert
Food and Drink
Family and Freedom: Colonial Massachusetts to Civil War
Celebration Partners
To learn more about this year’s celebration CLICK HERE.
10th Annual Lexington Parent & Caregiver Academy
REGISTRATION is now OPEN
FREE, IN PERSON EVENT
WHO: All interested Lexington families, adult caregivers and faculty
WHAT: 10th Annual Lexington Parent/Caregiver Academy. Participants can choose up to 3 workshops to attend throughout the day.
WHEN: Saturday March 23rd 10:00am-2:15pm
WHERE: Lexington Community Center, 39 Marrett Rd, Lexington, MA
WHY: The Parent Academy is designed to educate and empower parents and caregivers to manage the changing demands of parenting in today’s world, this is a free event for all interested Parents, Caregivers, Educators and Community Members.
To Register and View Presenters and Workshop Descriptions: 2024 Lexington Parent Academy Registration Link
or scan the QR code
For Food Donations and Volunteer Sign-up: Sign up here
SPONSORED BY: The Lexington Public Schools SHAC (School Health Advisory Council), Town of Lexington Human Services dept., Town of Lexington Recreation dept., ABCL (Association of Black Citizens of Lexington), BALex (Bangladeshi Americans of Lexington), CAAL (Chinese American Association of Lexington), CALex (Chinese Americans of Lexington), Human Rights Committee, IAL (Indian Americans of Lexington), JPLex (Japan Support Group of Lexington), LexFun (Lexington’s 5-and-under Network), Lexington Community Coalition, LexPride, LexSeeHer, LexSEPTA (Lexington Special Education PTA), LHS PTO, PPC (PTO Presidents Council), andNew Legacy Cultural Center.
Although registration is not required we encourage you to register to secure a space in the workshops you are interested in attending. Several of the workshops have limited spaces.
Please contact Julie Fenn, Assistant Coordinator of PE, Health and Wellness with any questions.
COME CELEBRATE DOUGLASS DAY 2024!
Where: Lexington Depot, 13 Depot Square, Lexington MA 02420
Registration: Visit https://lexlyceum.org/douglass-day
For more info: Contact Kerry Dunne, History & Social Studies Dept. Head kdunne@lexingtonma.org
There will be FREE FOOD!
National transcribe-a-thon featuring the letters of Frederick Douglass
Large Meeting Room, Cary Memorial Library, 1874 Massachusetts Avenue, Lexington, MA, 02420
Join us for a screening of Beyond Their Years, a compelling story of parallel lives lived by sports and social justice icons, Herb Carnegie and Buck O’Neil. A conversation and Q&A with the film’s producer, Bryant McBride will follow.
Please click on the image above or this link to register for this in person event. https://carylibrary.assabetinteractive.com/calendar/beyond-their-years-film-screening-and-discussion/
Tickets: $20 ($15 for students, teacher, and members of the Lexington Historical Society)
https://www.lexlyceum.org/events
Sponsored by the Lexington Lyceum Advocates, the Association of Black Citizens of Lexington (ABCL), and the Lexington Historical Society
Pulitzer Prize-winning historian David Blight will explore Frederick Douglass’s role as a prose poet of democracy, from his transformation as an advocate of the proslavery Constitution to the antislavery Constitution in the 1850s and how he interpreted the revolutionary transformations of emancipation and Reconstruction.
David Blight is Sterling Professor of History and Director of the Gilder Lehrman Center for the Study of Slavery, Resistance, and Abolition at Yale University. He is the author of several highly acclaimed books, including Race and Reunion: The Civil War in American Memory and Frederick Douglass: Prophet of Freedom, which won the Pulitzer Prize for history.
Frederick Douglass: Prophet of Freedom will be available for sale and signing at the event.
Please click here to purchase your tickets to ABCL’s 2024 MLK Day Concert on Sunday, January 14, 2024 at 2 pm at Follen Community Church. You’ll be inspired to build a better tomorrow by the songs that inspired the Civil Rights Movement and the stories of Dr. King’s membership in Alpha Phi Alpha, a Black Greek-letter fraternity.
The tribute to Dr. King and the civil rights movement will feature spirituals and freedom songs performed by a choir led by Dennis L. Slaughter, EdM, DLP. Borther Dennis is founding director of the Boston Community Choir and artistic director of the Boston Pops Orchestra Gospel Choir.
Your guides through the Legacy of Pledging Alpha Phi Alpha include Michelle Ridgley, Lexington native who’s uncle was a linemate of Dr. King, and James Hoyte, Lexington resident and fellow Alpha who also pledged Sigma Chapter.
Tickets – $25 general admission
Proceeds support the ABCL Scholarship Fund.
This concert is ABCL’s 2024 Black History Portrait Banners Concert.
Invite your neighbors and friends to buy their tickets now to this celebration of Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. on Sunday, January 14, 2024 at 2pm at Follen Community Church.
Please join Greater Boston Interfaith Organization – Housing Justice Campaign on
Wednesday, December 6, 2023 7:00 PM – 8:30 PM ET (Arrive between 6:30 and 6:45 for a 7 pm sharp start)
Hancock United Church of Christ, 1912 Massachusetts Ave, Lexington, MA 02421
In District Meeting with Senator Cindy Friedman and Reps Michelle Ciccolo, Sean Garballey and Ken Gordon
You can register for it here:
https://secure.everyaction.com/MKEv2yVp7UeialYIWKpHPg2
ABCL’s Black History Portrait Banners honor trailblazers who have contributed to Lexington and American history and culture over the last four centuries.
This year’s banner honorees are two former Lexington residents
Doors open at 6:30 for socializing with appetizers and drinks
There will also be an opportunity to take pictures with the portrait banners after the program.
Please use this link to RSVP and to share this event with your networks.
Hancock United Church of Christ
1912 Massachusetts Avenue
Lexington, MA 02421
Join Boston Public Quartet & Lexington High School Chamber Orchestra for an uplifting classical afternoon celebrating pioneering composer, pianist & teacher Florence B. Price.
Buy your tickets now!