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Noelle Lorraine Williams

Noelle Lorraine Williams is the director of the African American History Program and the Black Heritage Trail at the New Jersey Historical Commission. Williams has worked for more than two decades, as a public humanities specialist, historian, artist, researcher, and curator. Her work examines the ways African Americans utilize culture to re-imagine liberation in the United States. She is a graduate of the New School for Social Research and Rutgers University - Newark and her work has been profiled in the New York Times, ArtNews, and the Star-Ledger.
Politics

Juneteenth Celebrates an End to Slavery—But Northern States Still Allowed It

Modern descriptions of American slavery often paint the North as slavery-free, abolitionist states, but this isn’t true.