Fwd: Double invite for Sat and Sun, 2.21 & 2.22 - MTW#46 + Pavonia Massacre Commemoration

[Tobias Fox]

See details below. --TFox

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From: Jack Tchen <jt...@newark.rutgers.edu>
Date: Fri, Feb 13, 2026 at 11:12 AM
Subject: Double invite for Sat and Sun, 2.21 & 2.22 - MTW#46 + Pavonia Massacre Commemoration
To: Jack Tchen <jt...@newark.rutgers.edu>

Dear friends and colleagues -

Please come and help us get the word out!

We may come from different places, but we are one people interlinked by shared histories. Join us as we continue to do the urgent public memory work of how Dutch and British colonists' dispossession, enslavement, and extraction were intertwined processes, not separate, and linked to global imperial trade which also later brought immigrant labor.

As we seek to deal with the cascading impacts of atmospheric warming and social justice, the America that never was must be - Langston Hughes, 1935. Now more than ever!

This is a double personal invite to:

• The Marion Thompson Wright Lecture Series #46! "Beyond Time: Ancient Africa, History and the Black Imagination" Saturday, Feb 21 at Rutgers-Newark (see the text and poster attachment further below) and

    

• "We Are Still Here" commemoration of the Pavonia Massacre, on Sunday, Feb 22, noon- 2pm

Hope to see you at both!

Jack Tchen

Michaeline Newton Mann, Copyright 2026

Join Chief Vincent Mann, Brent Stonefish, and Michaeline Newton Mann:

Sunday, February 22, 2026 Noon to 2:00 pm

"We are still here" commemorating the Pavonia Massacre

Liberty State Science Center (rear lawn) Jersey City, New Jersey

 

This event is free and open to the public.

FLYER ATTACHED, PLS SHARE WITH YOUR NETWORKS

ALSO

Invite to the MTW#46 - returning to the basics . . .

Beyond Time: Ancient Africa, History, and the Black Imagination

The bigotry of civilization which is the taproot of intellectual prejudice begins far back and must be

corrected at its source. Fundamentally it has come about from that depreciation of Africa which has sprung

up from ignorance of her true role and position in human history and the early development of culture.”                                                                                                                              Arturo Schomburg

The African continent is the oldest inhabited in the world. Yet much of what we know and learn is organized around the arrival and departure of people from other lands. Beyond Time: Ancient Africa, History, and the Black Imagination reflects upon some of the earliest histories of Africa.

Emphasizing the important legacies of the continent’s early societies for our contemporary world. This year’s series underscores the need to sustain a focus on Africa as we imagine just and livable futures for humanity.

Scholars Nwando Achebe, Esailama Artry-Diouf, and Nnedi Okorafor will lead us in powerful discussions on early African embodied knowledges--histories, folklife, and movement.

We'll also be paying tribute to Dr. Clement Price @ 80! including an exhibition of his books and personal items at the Dana Rutgers Library.

WBGO interview about MTW #46

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rfRoD_EQXNE

Register here for you in person or online reservation.

Speaker biographies

Dr. Nwando Achebe is a University Distinguished Professor, Jack and Margaret Sweet

Endowed Professor of History and Associate Dean for Access, Faculty Development,

and Strategic Implementation at Michigan State University. She is a multi-award winning,

distinguished professor of history. She is the founding editor in chief of the Journal of

West African History, co-director of the Christie and Chinua Achebe Foundation, and co-

CEO of Achebe Masterworks. Dr. Achebe is the author of six books, including Farmers, 

Traders, Warriors, and Kings, The Female King of Colonial Nigeria, and Female Monarchs 

and Merchant Queens in Africa.

Dr. Artry-Diouf is an internationally recognized performing artist, educator, and scholar 

of West African Dance, African Diaspora, and Black Dance History. Dr. Artry-Diouf is 

a founding director of Bisemi Inc.—an organization dedicated to preserving the artistic 

practices of African and Afro-diasporic cultures. She is an advocate for community artists 

and arts based social justice initiatives and has dedicated more than 20 years of her life to 

the preservation of African arts, history, and cultures. Dr. Artry-Diouf is co-editor of 

Hot Feet and Social Change: African Dance and Diaspora Communities.

Dr. Nnedi Okorafor is a Professor of Practice with the Interplanetary Initiative in

The College of Liberal Arts and Sciences at Arizona State University. She is an

internationally celebrated, critically acclaimed, award-winning author of

Africanfuturism. A thought leader on storytelling and writing centered on African

ways of knowing, she has authored more than a dozen books and comics for adults

and children. Her works include the Binti trilogy, Death of an Author, Black Panther:

Long Live the King, and Wakanda Forever.

Saturday February 21, 2026 ~~ 9 am check in

Paul Robeson Center @ Rutgers Newark

In person and simulcast registration link

Jack Tchen (he/him - ki/kin)

Inaugural Clement A. Price Professor of Public History & Humanities

Director, Clement Price Institute on Ethnicity, Culture and the Modern Experience

Rutgers University - Newark

49 Bleeker Street

Newark, New Jersey 07102

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Tobias A. Fox
Founder-Managing Director
www.sasglocal.com
Cell: 646-399-0337

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