Press

Recent Press Coverage

  • Patch New Jersey: “Group Fighting To Preserve Montclair's 'Freed Slave House' Earns Award.” October 10, 2023. Article.

  • Montclair Local: “A Look Back: Friends of Howe House Turns One.” October 17, 2023. Article.

  • Montclair Local: “Montclair NAACP Celebrates History, Community at 107th Thurgood Marshall Freedom Fund Dinner.” October 16, 2023. Article.

  • Montclair Local: “Montclair Reflects on 60th Anniversary of March on Washington.” August 23, 2023. Article.

  • Baristanet.com: “Art Show Raises Funds to Support Friends of the Howe House” March 10, 2023. Article.

  • Tapinto.net: “Montclair Brewery’s Beer Release Party Raises Funds for Township’s Historic James Howe House” Feb 20, 2023

  • NJ.com: “In this gentrifying town, the erasure of Black history is slowed: Opinion” Feb 19, 2023

  • NorthJersey.com: “Montclair’s Historic Howe House” Feb 13, 2023

  • Baristanet.com: “Unlocking History: Friends of Howe House Get Keys to First Montclair Home Owned by an African American” Feb 13, 2023

  • NJ.com: “N.J. house once given to a freed slave now belongs to the community” Feb 13, 2023

  • N.J. Spotlight News: “Montclair group saves house with important Black history” Feb 13, 2023

  • CBSnews.com: “Montclair Brewery announces Black History Month Beers” Feb 4, 2023

  • NJ.com: “N.J. Community Group Buys House for $400k to Preserve a Piece of Town’s Slave History.” Dec 22, 2022.

  • Baristanet.com: “Saved! Friends of James Howe House Purchase Historic Property.” Dec 22, 2022.

  • Baristanet.com: “Friends of the Howe House Fear Losing Opportunity to Preserve Montclair History.” Nov 30, 2023.

  • Montclair Local: “Howe House Must Be Saved.” Nov 10, 2022.

  • NorthJersey.com: “Montclair preservationists rush to save historic 'Freed Slave House'“

  • CBS News:  “Efforts underway to save historic James Howe House in Montclair, N.J.” Oct 25, 2022 (video).

  • Fox 5: “Fight to save the 'Freed Slave House' in Montclair.” Oct 14, 2022.

  • Baristanet.com: “Rally To Save The Howe House, Montclair’s Freed Slave House.” Oct 15, 2022.