Share Your Mom's Wisdom With Fortune Cultural Center, Red Bank

RED BANK, NJ — The T. Thomas Fortune Cultural Center wants to know the best advice given to you from your mother - and any lessons you may have learned from your mom.

Mother's Day is May 14, and the center is encouraging people to share a mother's wisdom.

Click onto this link to tell your story. Send in responses and photos by April 30.

The responses will be shared in the Cultural Center's upcoming edition of its new digital magazine Fortune Forward.

The cultural center is housed in the now-refurbished landmark home of journalist T. Thomas Fortune, who lived in Red Bank.

Fortune, born in 1856, became an editor and owner of a newspaper ultimately named The New York Age in 1887. Under his editorial direction, the paper became the nation’s most influential Black paper, and was used to protest discrimination, lynching, mob violence, and disenfranchisement, according to the cultural center's website.

In 1901, Fortune moved to Red Bank. His house, Maple Hall, was placed on the National Register of Historic Places & Named a National Historic Landmark in 1976 and the New Jersey Register of Historic Places in 1979.

The mission of the T. Thomas Fortune Foundation is to preserve and further Fortune's civil rights and social justice legacy through community outreach, education, the arts and public programming, according to the center's website.