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Black Lives and Black Poetics Matter: A Reading and Discussion curated by Faraday Publishing September 17, 7:30pm
Join the Emily Dickinson Museum for an evening of vibrant poetry and dialogue on the vitality and importance of Black Lives and Black Poetics in contemporary America. Moderated by Enzo Silon Surin, founder and director of Faraday Publishing, this panel will feature leading Black poets, scholars, and educators, including Dr. Tony Medina, Bonita Lee Penn, Lisa Pegram, and Dr. Shauna Morgan. Read…
How Your Donations Are Being Used
Thank you for all who have donated with a sincere concern to make the world a better place. Here is a basic breakdown of where the resources are going. How are donations being used? Our team has built a multimedia outreach for anti-bullying education and training. First, to support our writing and other work on…
Why Do So Many Americans Think They Have Cherokee Blood?
“When you were born, you cried and the world rejoiced. Live your life so that when you die, the world cries and you rejoice.” ― Cherokee Proverb “I cannot say when I first heard of my Indian blood, but as a boy I heard it spoken of in a general way,” Charles Phelps, a resident…
Environmental Injustice: Race, Class and Climate Change FREE Online Event
“We can never know the ecstasy of true hope without attending to the tragic realities of the poor and forgotten.” ― William J. Barber II *** On Sept. 3, William Barber, II, strategic partnerships associate at The Climate Reality Project will speak on “Environmental Injustice: Race, Class and Climate Change.” This event is co-presented by…
What the Nazis Learned from Jim Crow: Author Isabel Wilkerson on the U.S. Racial Caste System
In her extensively researched new book, “Caste: The Origins of Our Discontents,” Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Isabel Wilkerson argues the United States’ racial hierarchy should be thought of as a caste system, similar to that in India, according to Democracy Now. She also looks at the ways Nazi Germany borrowed from U.S. Jim Crow laws. “The…
Guest Post: A Story of My White Privilege
by Jeanette (Jet) Hood When I lived in Phoenix, my home was in a small diverse gated community and I befriended a young man who was staying with his grandmother next door to me. Michael enjoyed documentaries and fitness walks with his tunes. He made multiple laps around our community and I sometimes wondered why…
Still Alive: The Son of A Civil War Chattel Slave
In the struggle for human rights, every once in a while, a true rarity pops up that helps encapsulate the core meaning of the dialogue. According to the Washington Post: It’s not possible to know how many people alive today are the children of enslaved people, but we shouldn’t be so surprised that they still…
Whitney Mestelle of Inclusive Idaho Sheds Light on the Real Meaning of Black Lives Matter
The woman who raised me was born in 1935. Her mother, born in 1904. 116 years have elapsed and yet we share the same story. Yes, there are notable differences – education, socioeconomic class, and legislation that elevates my right to live in a country free of legalized segregation. There has been progress, slow, but…
Yale University offers free course on African American history ‘from emancipation to the present’
As protests against police brutality and systemic racism have swept across the country following the death of George Floyd, many have been encouraged to educate themselves on the history of the black experience in the U.S. as a way to help contextualize recent events, Fox 2 News reports. Yale University offers a free course, called “African…
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