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John Lewis 1940-2020
We cannot express the depth of our gratitude to John Lewis. He made good trouble. As a young man I tasted the bitter fruits of segregation and racial discrimination, and I didn’t like it. I used to ask my parents, my grandparents, and my great grandparents, ‘Why segregation? Why racial discrimination?’ And they would say, ‘That’s the way it is.
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Remembering Woody Guthrie on his birthday
Today is the birthday of Woodrow Wilson, aka "Woody" Guthrie, born in Okemah, Oklahoma (1912). Woody Guthrie never finished high school, but he spent his spare time reading books at the local public library. He took occasional jobs as a sign painter and started playing music on a guitar he found in the street.
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What To The Slave Is The Fourth Of July?
The U.S. celebrates this Independence Day amid nationwide protests and calls for systemic reforms. In this short film, five young descendants of Frederick Douglass read and respond to excerpts of his famous speech, "What to the Slave is the Fourth of July?" which asks all of us to consider America's long history of denying equal rights to Black Americans.
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Climate Justice is Racial Justice, Racial Justice is Climate Justice
Rev. Lennox Yearwood Jr. of Hip Hop Caucus explores and explains why the destruction of our planet means greater harm to Black and marginalized communities. "In January of this year — before the pandemic — I was arrested for occupying a Chase bank on Pennsylvania Avenue in Washington D.C.
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Rev. Dr. William J. Barber II: The Only Way We Make It Through Is Together
As a leading voice forthe Poor People’s Campaign: A National Call for Moral Revival,Rev. Dr. William J.
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Samantha Smith Challenge Update
Brunswick, METhe 5th graders at St. John Catholic School refused to be deterred by the coronovirus or by cancellation of the 2020 Samnatha Smith Challenge Day.
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Michelle Alexander: America, This Is Your Chance
NY, NY"We must get it right this time or risk losing our democracy forever." “Denial may be neither a matter of telling the truth nor intentionally telling a lie.
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Trevor Noah: The Looting of Black Bodies
The Daily ShowThank you, Trevor Noah, for speaking the truth. In this June 1 episode of The Daily Distancing Show, "Trevor shares his thoughts on the killing of George Floyd, the protests in Minneapolis, the dominoes of racial injustice and police brutality, and how the contract between society and black Americans has been broken time and time again."
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Walt Whitman born on this day
Brooskville, MEIt's the 201st birthday of Walt Whitman, born on this day in 1819 at West Hills, Long Island, New York. Whitman wrote in his preface to Leaves of Grass: This is what you shall do: love the earth and sun and the animals, despise riches, give alms to everyone who asks, stand up for the stupid and crazy, devote your income and labor to others, hate tyrants, argue not concerning
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Celebrating 95th birthday of Malcolm X
The Shabazz CenterTuesday (May 19) marks the 95th anniversary ofMalcolm X’s birth. In honor of the iconic civil rights leader’s legacy,The Shabazz Centeris holding a daylong digital celebration with music, a town hall andperformances. Get more details at COLORLINES.com. “If you stick a knife nine inches into my back and pull it out three inches, that is not progress.
Events
- Inter-generational climate conversation
- Cove Street Arts: I Am an American
- Robert Shetterly Portrait Contest
- Using Storytelling for Social Justice
- AWTT Exhibit at Zumi's in Ipswich, MA
- The BTS Center Summer Arts Series
- Americans Who Tell the Truth @ Charlottesville
- Robert Shetterly: The Role of Education in a Democracy
- SUNY Polytech Artist's Talk
- Robert Shetterly at the Active Bystanding and Caring Communities Symposium