On November 2nd at 11am, a dedication ceremony will be held at the North End Recreation Center in Waterbury, CT to honor a new mural for a formerly enslaved man named Fortune.

On Monday, October 7th @ 8pm ET, I will be interviewed on KBLA Los Angeles Talk Radio by award winning Civil Rights Attorney and CNN Legal Analyst⁣, Areva Martin! Joining me will be the artist producing the Fortune Mural, Katiana Jarbath-Smith, and the Executive Director of The RiseUp Group, Matt Conway!

On October 3rd, 2024 at 5:30pm, John Mills will be giving a lecture for the Plainville, CT Antiracism Task Force.

On September 28th, 2024 at 10am, John Mills will be speaking as part of Living History Day at the New England Civil War Museum in Rockville, CT.

On Saturday, September 21st, 2024 @ 1pm, John Mills will be giving a lecture at the Connecticut River Museum in Essex, CT.

Next month we will be having an unveiling ceremony at New-Gate Prison in East Granby, CT! We will be unveiling a newly installed panel and plaque celebrating this site as the newest edition to the Connecticut Freedom Trail!

We will be painting a mural on the North End Rec Center in Waterbury, CT in honor of a formerly enslaved man named Fortune. The community is invited to help paint!

The final Middletown Common Council vote to approve the Honorary Street name of "Prince Mortimer Avenue" will take place on Tuesday, September 3rd at 7pm! 

On July 22nd, 2024 at 12:30pm, John Mills will be giving a lecture for high school students in Bristol, CT. The students are part of a DEI program organized by the Queen Ann Nzinga Center.

On Friday, June 25th, 2024, John Mills will join New Jersey Historical Preservation Activist Dolly Marshall for an online noon conversation!

The repaired stone for Mary & Thaddeus Newton, along with the Memorial Stone for Stephen Newton will be unveiled during a graveside cemetery at Evergreen Cemetery the 3rd week of June, 2024. The exact date and time will be solidified in the coming weeks.

On June 17th, 2024 at 3pm, John Mills will be giving a lecture at the Brightview Senior Living in Shelton, CT.

On Saturday, June 15th, 2024, The New Haven Museum in collaboration with Connecticut’s Old State House will host Historical Preservation Activist and Historian from New Jersey, Dolly Marshall!

To honor Isaac, a service will be held at the Presbyterian Burial Ground at the spot of Isaac’s new gravestone. The service will be on June 8th at 10am at 800 North Broad Street in Woodbury, NJ.

On June 5th, 2024 at 6pm, John Mills will be giving a lecture at the Bloomfield Community Center located at 330 Park Avenue in Bloomfield, CT.

On June 3rd, 2024 from 8am to 6pm, the Connecticut League of Museums will be hosting their annual Conference. The event will be held at Central Connecticut State University in New Britain, CT.

Join the Working Women’s Network, Yale African American Affinity Group, and Yale Veterans Network for a discussion with John Mills, an independent scholar and president of the Alex Breanne Corporation (a Connecticut-based non-profit researching the lives of the enslaved), about individuals of Connecticut's colored regiments.

On May 16th, 2024 at 4pm, John Mills will be giving a lecture at the Stanley-Whitman House in Farmington, CT. The lecture will focus on how stories are told within colonial heritage sites and what we can do to make them more inclusive.

On Wednesday, May 1st, 2024 @ 9:45am, John Mills will be giving a lecture at the Connecticut Democracy Center in Hartford, CT.

On Wednesday, April 24th at 2:30pm, the Alex Breanne Corporation in collaboration with Riverside Cemetery and The RiseUp Group will be presenting during Teen Time at the Mattauck.

On April 17th at 8:30am ET, John Mills will be on Chris Fortier’s morning show on Waterbury, CT radio station WATR 97.7 FM, 1320 AM.

The “Unforgotten“ project was made available on YouTube and on the Connecticut Public website on March 18th, 2024. It will now air on the Connecticut PBS affiliate CPTV as a 1 hour documentary.

On April 9th, 2024 from 6 - 8pm, the The Mattatuck Museum will be hosting Waterbury Public School Students in their annual Artrageous 2024 District-Wide Art Exhibit!

On March 16th, 2024, John Mills will be presenting a lecture for The Association for the Study of Connecticut History (ASCH). This is an in-person event in-person event at Central Connecticut State University.

On February 29th, 2024 at 7pm, John Mills will be giving an online lecture on Connecticut's "colored" regiments during the Civil War. The event will be co-hosted by the Middlesex County Historical Society and the Greater Middletown Military Museum.

Tentatively scheduled for February 24th, we are planning to install a new memorial headstone for Pvt. Isaac J. Hill, a former soldier with the 29th Connecticut Colored Regiment during the Civil War.

On February 21st, 2024 at 7pm, John Mills will be giving an online lecture for the Trumbull Historical Society, discussing the men of the 29th Connecticut Colored Infantry Regiment.

John Mills will be sitting on a panel discussion at The Connecticut Old State House in Hartford, CT on February 16th, 2024 at 3pm ET. The panel discussion will focus on the perspective of descendants.

On February 7th at 11am ET, John Mills will be on the Palace Theater radio program, “Your Palace Your Place.“ The program airs on Waterbury, CT radio station WATR 97.7 FM, 1320 AM.

To celebrate Black History Month, The Wallingford Public Library will be holding a program on Tuesday evening, February 6 at 7pm.