Black Heritage Trail of New Hampshire

The federal holiday is June 19. The Black Heritage Trail of New Hampshire will host expanded celebrations starting June 10.

The bill had received broad bipartisan support in the Senate, but the House decided it needed further study.

Black community leaders opened up about struggling to feel valued, understood and safe at work, in medical settings and other largely white spaces in New Hampshire. But they were also clear: Their experiences are not monolithic and not defined only by the challenges they’ve faced.

Give Back New Hampshire is a bi-weekly segment spotlighting New Hampshire nonprofit organizations. It airs every other Saturday at 9:35 during Weekend Edition.

A poetry night from the Black Heritage Trail of N.H. is exploring where poetry and science overlap.

Nur Shoop, a tour guide for the Black Heritage Trail of New Hampshire, says the North was segregated like the South. It just wasn’t as obvious.

As Juneteenth celebrations get underway this weekend, a special tribute is planned to honor the career of Dover native Nellie Brown Mitchell. She was born…

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With statues coming down around the country in the wake of the Black Lives Matter movement, NHPR’s Sean Hurley recently heard about one town in New…