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10/20/2020

Please read this whole Vanity Fair Edition. I just read Ta-Nehesi Coates' article THE GREAT FIRE and was moved, challenged and made more determined to fight for justice.

Ta-Nehisi Coates guest-edits a special project about Breonna Taylor, George Floyd, the Black Lives Matter movement, and more.

09/22/2020

Worth questioning

09/22/2020

White parents, this is a must listen. It will have you asking important questions of yourself and the institutions around you.

A new five-part series about building a better school system, and what gets in the way. New episodes of “Nice White Parents” are available here, brought to you by Serial, a New York Times Company.

09/10/2020

I have just watched one of my favorite groups, Step Afrika, dance in the virtual world premiere of Stono inspired by the Stono rebellion of September 9,1739. Not only is the performance absolutely riveting, it is also an incredible tool for teaching about essential African and black history, dance, music, and the connections between past rebellions, resistance, and protests for black emancipation and freedom and how they are related to our more current protests in the Black Lives Matter movement. The performance itself is half hour.

There is a panel discussion afterwords that is eye opening, incredibly informative and helps to draw the connections necessary for all of us to better understand these links and this essential history. It will be available for only one more week. I forward this to you for yourselves and also for the possibility that it could be used in school classes too. It would spark amazing conversations.

I cannot speak more highly of this and offer this to you with all of my respect, passion and excitement.

Here is a link to StepAfrika’s description of the show: https://www.stepafrika.org/events/step-afrika-virtual-premiere-stono/

08/06/2020

Please look at this amazing conference happening this saturday and sunday....
https://rainbowfamiliesconference.org/

Rainbow Families is a nonprofit org serving LGBTQ+ families, prospective parents, and allies, dating back to the 1990s.

07/18/2020

John Lewis was a legend. Let’s make his life meaningful even post death. Let’s act for justice.

07/05/2020

On this July 4th, please listen to the decendants of Frederick Douglass read some of his 4th of July Speech.

The U.S. celebrates this Independence Day amid calls for systemic reform. In this film, five descendants of Frederick Douglass read excerpts of his speech, "What to the Slave is the Fourth of July?"

06/24/2020

This woman is doing inter generational trauma work in her Native American community. Somatic archaeology she calls it. For any of you interested in the body and the mind and the impact of trauma, please read this.

Dr. Ruby Gibson (Lakota, Ojibway, Mestiza), cofounder and executive director of Freedom Lodge, a nonprofit organization in Rapid City, South Dakota that provides historical and intergenerational trauma healing to Native American communities, shares her work on Somatic Archaeology© and its healing p...

06/18/2020

Such big news for DACA and Dreamers!!!!

Chief Justice John Roberts was the swing vote in the 5-4 decision, dealing a big legal defeat to President Trump on the issue of immigration.

06/18/2020

Colleague Christine Saxman wrote this to white people about this article, and she says it better than I could.

Hello White community,

Please read this and stick with the discomfort. Don’t rush to quit your book club. Or rush to criticize other White people in book clubs.

We do need to learn.

AND.

We need to develop clarity about how to help ourselves and other White people move into transformative action. Transformative. Not performative.

Do not give into the paralysis of not knowing what to do. Build your collective that both learns AND transforms. You cannot do this alone and learning is not enough.

I’m caught in a time loop where my white friends and acquaintances perform the same pieties over and over again.

06/18/2020

Think about this 21 day racial equity challenge. Eddie Moore and his team will help you look at changing your habits.

Have you ever made a successful change in your life? Perhaps you wanted to exercise more, eat less, or change jobs? Think about the time and attention you dedicated to the process. A lot, right? Change is hard. Creating effective social justice habits, particularly those dealing with issues of power...

06/18/2020

This is thought provoking and necessary for us white people to read and hear. Not easy. Necessary. Many white people are wondering what to do and not to do in being anti-racist. Please read.

Racism is not mine, it is yours, and what you do is not called helping when it is your mess we are cleaning.

06/16/2020

70 years ago the youngest person ever to be executed in the United States. How much has really changed? We need to know the name George Stinney.

Learn more about our history of racial injustice.

06/15/2020

I was on this educational panel this evening for LGBTQ+ pride- . There is much to learn.

06/15/2020

Finally some good news!

The decision said Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964, which makes it illegal for employers to discriminate because of a person's s*x, also covers s*xual orientation and transgender status.

06/15/2020

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06/15/2020

This June has restored the spirit of protest to Pride celebrations. Here are shows to help you understand the moment.

06/15/2020

Black Trans Lives Matter

As Black Lives Matter protests continue around the country, throngs in New York City put a lens on the dangers facing the Black transgender community.