The Heritage Committee of Middlesex County, Inc., will sponsor a talk by Dr. Randolph H. Latimore Sr. at 3 p.m. Sunday, Nov. 10 at Union Shiloh Baptist Church, 3 Union Shiloh Lane (at Route 17), Jamaica.
Latimore’s topic will be “Freedom in the Air.” Presented by The Heritage Committee in commemoration of the upcoming 250th anniversary of the American Revolution, this program will be the county’s first “250” program to highlight the unique perspective of African Americans and the first to be held in Northern Middlesex, a release said.
When captured Africans arrived at Virginia’s Point Comfort in 1619, they had lost their families, their homes, and their freedom. Thus began the arduous and sorrowful journey of enslavement of Black people in this country that lasted for 250 years, the release said.
Latimore will discuss the story of African Americans and their quest for freedom against the institutional and societal challenges that have persisted throughout the American experience. He wi...