By People’s Organization for Progress
The 16th annual commemoration of the Nat Turner Slave Rebellion will be held today, Thursday, August 21, 2025, 5:00 pm at Nat Turner Park, 171 Muhammad Ali Avenue in Newark, New Jersey.
The program will take place near the entrance of the park at the intersection of Muhammad Ali Avenue and Jeliff Avenue. It is sponsored by People’s Organization for Progress (POP) and Friends of Nat Turner Park.
“We are having this commemoration because we believe that it is important to remember that black people did not passively accept slavery. We rebelled against it,” Lawrence Hamm, Chairman, People’s Organization For Progress stated.
“Black people fought against slavery in Africa. We rose up against our captors on the slave ships. And we rebelled against it on the plantations, in the towns and cities of the north as well as the south,” Hamm stated.
“This is the history that President Trump would ban and erase from our museums, textbooks, schools and universities, cultural institutions, government agencies, news and information companies, social media, data bases, and other areas of society,” he said.
Trump recently announced that he was going to initiate a review of the National Museum of African American History and Culture in Washington to eliminate exhibits that are deemed to be “divisive” or “woke.” He said he would send in lawyers to perform this task and he has appointed someone to oversee the effort.
The Peoples Organization for Progress (POP)
PO BOX 22505
Newark, NJ 07101
973 801-0001
www.njpop.org
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