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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.

jfenn@lexingtonma.org

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

• Kate Barbadoes – Perseverance in the 18th Century: baptized with her husband in Lexington in 1754, their three children were baptized in Lexington in 1755 and 1756, widowed in 1757 when her husband Quawk died. Come hear more about her story and the ripple effect that she had on the Revolutionary War and abolition movement.   .
• John Henry Brown – Reestablishing Black Residency in the 19th Century: enslaved in Maryland, self-emancipated in 1862, Civil War veteran, resident of Lexington from 1860s to 1920.  Come here more about his story and how he became a pillar of the community with a pension.

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!

Tickets available from Eventbrite

240th Anniversary of Massachusetts Emancipation Day

8:00 AM to 10:00 AM – 3rd Annual Quock Walker Day Hike for Freedom

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 qwdhike4freedom2023.racewire.com

Join ABCL’s celebration of the 240th anniversary of the Supreme Judicial Court decision that ended slavery in the Commonwealth of Massachusetts in 1783.

Hear the story of Quock Walker’s life and judicial victories.
This event will run from 8:00 AM – 10:00 AM.

11:00 AM to 2:00 PM – 3rd Annual Quock Walker Day Community Celebration

Visitors Center Lawn
1875 Massachusetts Ave
Lexington MA 02420

Join ABCL’s celebration of the 240th anniversary of the Supreme Judicial Court decision that ended slavery in the Commonwealth of Massachusetts in 1783. Learn about the lives of Lexingtonians who were enslaved and emancipated. Hear how Quock Walker’s fortitude and judicial victories inspired his relatives to fight for equal rights in Massachusetts and for the abolition of slavery across the United States of America.

Highlights include colonial children’s games: hoop play, game of graces, and quoits, West African food and dance, colonial arts and crafts, colonial and military reenactors, and more.

This event is open to all and will run from 11:00 AM – 2:00 PM.

Join us at this virtual event co-sponsored with Cary Library. Registration is required. We’ll talk about the history of Juneteenth and the ways in which the holiday has evolved. Nicole will share some of her favorite recipes to honor the Juneteenth holiday and Black celebrations year-round. Download the flyer here.