Anti-Bias Task Force

In honor of Women’s History Month, the Riverhead Anti-Bias Task Force puts the spotlight on five local Women Making History Saturday at Riverhead Free Library.

The Riverhead Anti-Bias Task Force invites the community to celebrate Hispanic Heritage Month with SEPA Mujer at the Riverhead Free Library, Tuesday Sept. 6 from 6 to 7:30 p.m. Admission is free and all are welcome. 

Experts from Family Service League will share coping skills and strategies to work through trauma.  They’ll also share information on warning signs and risk factors to look for and how to have a preventative conversation that may save a life.Free program, Monday July 11, 6 p.m. at the Riverhead library.

The Suffolk County Historical Society and Southampton History Museum are suspending their executive directors and pledging to increase the diversity of their leadership after apologizing to members of the Black community for featuring Ku Klux Klan-related content on their websites during Black History Month.

The words of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. came alive at Riverhead Free Library Saturday on what would have been the civil rights leader’s 92nd birthday, during a program sponsored by the Riverhead Anti-Bias Task Force.

Riverhead Town’s Anti-Bias Task Force has revealed three new collaborations for January and February with the Riverhead Free Library.

In a letter signed by ABTF chairperson Cindy Clifford, which Councilwoman Catherine Kent read aloud at today’s town board meeting, the ABTF noted that the town had scheduled its regular monthly meeting today, the second day of Rosh Hashanah and a water forum meeting on Yom Kippur, the holiest day of the year for people of the Jewish faith.

The interactive workshops each have two sessions. Residents can choose either the Monday morning sessions, which take place June 21 and June 28 from 10 a.m. to 12 noon, or the Tuesday evening sessions, which will be held June 22 and June 29, from 6:30 to 8:30 pm. Both sessions will take place at Riverhead Town Hall.

Riverhead Town’s Anti-Bias Task Force has a new chairperson and may soon have some new members, as the task force and the town board look to expand the group’s diversity.

"United We Laugh," a cutting-edge new comedy show seeking to table discrimination through laughter and conversation, kicks off the evening with stand-up comics representing all sides of the heated divide in the nation today. Act two is a conversation with the audience moderated by James “Dr. Love” Banks.