WHY IS THERE A PUBLIC MIDDLE SCHOOL, FULL OF BRILLIANT BLACK + BROWN CHILDREN, NAMED AFTER ESEK HOPKINS?

How to Support Our Historical Intervention:

1. Sign our Petition (co-sponsored by PRONK!)
2. Buy our T-Shirt & wear it EVERYWHERE!
3. Donate to our GoFundMe Fundraiser!
4. Spread the word! We need all the help we can get as we prepare to submit a THOROUGH proposal to the City of Providence's Commission for Commemorative Works to TRANSFORM the 3 existing memorials to Esek Hopkins, commander of the slaveship "Sally" -- the haus+parq, the statue, and the public middle school full of brilliant Black + Brown youth.

ALL DONATIONS from our Bonfire Fundraiser + GoFundMe will:

1. pay artists + youth to get involved in our historic intervention to heal + transform the 3 memorials to Esek Hopkins, commander of the slaveship "Sally"
2. provide programming for schools, youth, families, and community organizations to engage a more accurate + empowering understanding of Esek Hopkins + RI's role in the transatlantic slave trade AND to preserve BIPOC history + culture
3. create scholarships to bring a cohort of artists on tour to Mali, West Africa this summer 2022 to research, train, study and create at the Yeredon Center for the Malian Arts
4. help us stage the next staged performance of our original activist dance opera "The Historical Fantasy of Esek Hopkins" AND prepare for our world tour in 2023 -2024!