In-Person Program.\u00a0<\/i>Thursday, July 4 from 11:00 a.m. to 2:00 p.m.<\/p>\n
Please join the Royall House & Slave Quarters for our second annual “Reading Frederick Douglass Together” program on the museum grounds in Medford on Thursday, July 4th.<\/p>\n
We invite community members to gather on the lawn in front of the historic Slave Quarters building to read\/listen to Douglass\u2019s \u201cWhat to the Slave is the Fourth of July?\u201d to honor the long history of Black activism, critique, and abolition.\u00a0Scholar\/activist David Harris<\/strong>\u00a0will launch the reading, then invite community members to read sections of the speech.\u00a0A drum circle with Akili Jamal Haynes<\/strong>\u00a0will close out the program.<\/p>\n After the event, we invite community members to an open house inside the Royall House and the Slave Quarters. Light refreshments will be provided.<\/p>\n How to Participate: This in-person program is free and open to all. The Royall House and Slave Quarters has received a generous grant for this program from Mass Humanities\u00a0with funding made possible by the\u00a0Mass Cultural Council.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" In-Person Program.\u00a0Thursday, July 4 from 11:00 a.m. to 2:00 p.m. Please join the Royall House & Slave Quarters for our second annual “Reading Frederick Douglass Together” program on the museum […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":14340,"template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"nf_dc_page":"","_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","_tribe_events_status":"","_tribe_events_status_reason":"","_tribe_events_is_hybrid":"","_tribe_events_is_virtual":"","_tribe_events_virtual_video_source":"","_tribe_events_virtual_embed_video":"","_tribe_events_virtual_linked_button_text":"","_tribe_events_virtual_linked_button":"","_tribe_events_virtual_show_embed_at":"","_tribe_events_virtual_show_embed_to":[],"_tribe_events_virtual_show_on_event":"","_tribe_events_virtual_show_on_views":"","_tribe_events_virtual_url":"","footnotes":""},"tag":[128,129],"tribe_events_cat":[100],"class_list":["post-21982","tribe_events","type-tribe_events","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","tag-free","tag-family-friendly","tribe_events_cat-performances","cat_performances"],"acf":{"explore_list_featured_select":"1","select_experience":[1866],"select_topic":[1878,1874],"select_theme":[1888,1892,1890],"select_location":[1948,1904],"select_audience":[1964,1965,1966],"descriptor":"Things to Do"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/freedomsway.org\/staging\/6553\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tribe_events\/21982","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/freedomsway.org\/staging\/6553\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tribe_events"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/freedomsway.org\/staging\/6553\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/tribe_events"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/freedomsway.org\/staging\/6553\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/freedomsway.org\/staging\/6553\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tribe_events\/21982\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":21983,"href":"https:\/\/freedomsway.org\/staging\/6553\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tribe_events\/21982\/revisions\/21983"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/freedomsway.org\/staging\/6553\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/14340"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/freedomsway.org\/staging\/6553\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21982"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/freedomsway.org\/staging\/6553\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tag?post=21982"},{"taxonomy":"tribe_events_cat","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/freedomsway.org\/staging\/6553\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tribe_events_cat?post=21982"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}