February marks Black History Month, a period of remembrance for the critical figures and events that have shaped our national identity. Within the great umbrella of American Black History, the city of New Haven has several historic pillars of our own.<\/p>\n
At the New Haven Museum, visitors and locals can explore the history of the Amistad Affair through the exhibit \u201cThe Amistad Story: Cinque Lives Here.\u201d The permanent exhibit chronicles the events of the revolt and subsequent legal case, a defining moment in the anti-slavery movement. Read more about it on our\u00a0blog<\/a>.\u00a0Your next stop on the New Haven Black History trail\u00a0will bring you to the statue of William Lanson, which stands at 7 feet tall on the Farmington Canal. Read more about his history\u00a0here<\/a>.<\/p>\n With a solid historical foundation under our feet, let\u2019s look to present-day celebrations of Black history in New Haven. On February 15th\u00a0NXTHVN<\/a>, the city\u2019s cutting-edge center for transformative art mentorship, will host\u00a0NXTHVN Performs: New Haven Jazz<\/a>\u00a0honoring the Dixwell Neighborhood\u2019s jazz history with an intimate and intergenerational performance.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" February marks Black History Month, a period of remembrance for the critical figures and events that have shaped our national identity. Within the great umbrella of American Black History, the city of New Haven has several historic pillars of our own. At the New Haven Museum, visitors and locals can explore the history of the […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":13083,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[671,672],"tags":[669,657],"table_tags":[],"class_list":["post-13082","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-from-the-e-newsletter","category-in-the-spotlight","tag-black-history","tag-history-and-heritage"],"acf":[],"featured_image_src":{"landsacpe":["https:\/\/mnh.silvermangroup-dev.com\/cms\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/bb2fc747-dc71-dc0e-1347-61bf9ea2baa3-1140x445.png",1140,445,true],"list":["https:\/\/mnh.silvermangroup-dev.com\/cms\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/bb2fc747-dc71-dc0e-1347-61bf9ea2baa3-463x348.png",463,348,true],"medium":["https:\/\/mnh.silvermangroup-dev.com\/cms\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/bb2fc747-dc71-dc0e-1347-61bf9ea2baa3-300x200.png",300,200,true],"full":["https:\/\/mnh.silvermangroup-dev.com\/cms\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/bb2fc747-dc71-dc0e-1347-61bf9ea2baa3.png",1200,800,false]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mnh.silvermangroup-dev.com\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13082","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mnh.silvermangroup-dev.com\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mnh.silvermangroup-dev.com\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mnh.silvermangroup-dev.com\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mnh.silvermangroup-dev.com\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13082"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mnh.silvermangroup-dev.com\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13082\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14106,"href":"https:\/\/mnh.silvermangroup-dev.com\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13082\/revisions\/14106"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mnh.silvermangroup-dev.com\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/13083"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mnh.silvermangroup-dev.com\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13082"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mnh.silvermangroup-dev.com\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13082"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mnh.silvermangroup-dev.com\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13082"},{"taxonomy":"table_tags","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mnh.silvermangroup-dev.com\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/table_tags?post=13082"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}