Last June, after the Drinking Gourd Project’s well-attended May event with author Elise Lemire (Black Walden) and a reenactment of an 1800s Concord Female Antislavery Society meeting, the DGP first heard about the Caesar Robbins/Peter Hutchinson house.
Since then, the DGP has spent most of its time and lost much of its sleep publicizing and fundraising […]
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The Drinking Gourd Project: Saving Caesar Robbins’ House
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Fall 2009: Letter from the Chair
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Dear Friends of the Human Rights Council:
As with any organization, we try to measure what we do by holding up our decisions and activities by the light of our mission statement. One of the simplest ways to judge our actions is to re-examine them with ‘the climate of the community is the responsibility of the […]
The Abby Fund Supports METCO
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by Danielle Laura
What is so striking about the death of our 2006 high school graduate, Abdirauf Abdullahi, is that he successfully completed high school, he received a full scholarship to college, and two months before attending his first semester, he was shot and killed in a case of mistaken identity and urban violence.
“Abby was peace-loving, […]
Welcoming Aaron Joncas, K-12 METCO Program Director
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It is with tremendous excitement that I write to introduce myself to the Concord, Carlisle and Boston communities as the new METCO Program Director. The school year is well underway, and our students are focused on high achievement.
In order to be successful in today’s global society, students need an outstanding educational foundation. I am confident […]
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