The Friends of the Westfield Memorial Library, in partnership with the Westfield Memorial Library and the Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Association of Westfield, are celebrating Black History Month 2025 with an exhibition of portraits and with four discussions inspired by those portraits. Fourteen paintings, relating to the Black Experience, were chosen from the collection of Americans Who Tell the Truth (AWTT) and will be on display for the month of February.  The portraits on display and programs will be held in the Meeting Room.

Professor Keith Walcott will present The Beginning of the Civil Rights Movement: Slavery and the Undersground Railroad (Harriet Tubman, Frederick Douglass) to the Niagara Movement and the NAACP (W.E.B. DuBois) 

A longtime resident of Plinfield, Professor Keith Walcott was born in the West Indian Island of Barbados and came to the United Sates 40 years ago.  He received undergraduate and graduate degrees in History from Rutgers University, and holds minsterial credentials with the Assemblies of God.  He is currently an Adjunct Professor at UCNJ (formerly Union County College) specializing in African American History.