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Enjoy face painting, business-to-business networking, bouncy castles, NYC agencies onsite assistance, music and games, and M/WBE certification information. For more information about participating, email to outreach@bronxchamber.org.

–– Compiled by Karen Juanita Carrillo

New Jersey

Continued from page 4 segregated African American burial ground — it is where some 200 Trenton citizens from the 1860s are interred, at least 10 of whom are Civil War veterans.

The idea of establishing the museum was promoted and organized by the 6th Regiment United States Colored Troops reenactors. Members of the 6th Regiment USCT created the Locust Hill Project with the aim of restoring the building on the site and making it an interpretive center/museum. They also want the headstones in the adjoining cemetery repaired and maintained.

––compiled by Karen Juanita Carrillo nycommunitytrust.org/philanthropist

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