WEDNESDAY, APRIL 13 at 7:00 PM

Dr. Andrea Frohne recounts the processes involved in community recognition and public commemoration of the African Burial Ground in lower Manhattan. The cemetery covered six city blocks for 15,000 enslaved and freed Africans and African Americans buried there between 1712 and 1795. A federal office building was erected on a portion of the sacred ground from 1991 to 1994. Dr. Frohne is an art historian of Africa at Ohio University. She published The African Burial Ground in New York City: Memory, Spirituality, and Space and has a book forthcoming: Contemporary Artists from the Horn of Africa: Encounters Beyond Borders through Conflict, Colonialism, and Modernity . This program is co-Sponsored with the Friends of the Glen Rock Library and the Cresskill and Teaneck Libraries. Register here with LibCal.