WAYS to LEARN ABOUT and WORK AGAINST RACISM

Seeking ideas for teaching about the Black Freedom Struggle? Monday, Feb 15 at 7pm hear
Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee veteran Judy Richardson and the co-editors of Time to
Teach, Jeanne Theoharis and Pamela Horowitz. Teacher and organizer Jesse Hagopian will lead the
conversation. Register Additional sessions for teachers: https://www.zinnedproject.org/news/teach-
black-freedom-struggle-classes

“Do We Ask Too Much of Black Heroes?” by Imani Perry is the first piece in “Black History,
Continued,” a New York Times series that will explore pivotal moments and transformative figures in
Black culture and examine how the past shapes the present and the future.
https://www.nytimes.com/2021/01/29/us/black-history-heroes.html

Watch “Criminalizing the Mountain South: Persistent Inequalities” Wednesday, Feb 10 5:30-
7:30pm First in an interdisciplinary roundtable series exploring the politics of race, class, gender,
sexuality and criminalization in the Appalachian South. Register for zoom link:
https://t.e2ma.net/message/av3cve/qr7ljob

Listen to the 5th Race and Social Justice Panel Discussion: Racial Capitalism on Thursday,
February 18 4:30-6pm. Online Live Stream Keynote Speaker Dr. Ruth Wilson Gilmore, Professor of
Earth & Environmental Sciences & Director of the Center for Place, Culture, and Politics at the City
University of New York Graduate Center and Co-founder California Prison Moratorium Project, Critical
Resistance, and the Central California Environmental Justice Network and Discussant Dr. David
McNally. Hosted by Special Committee on Race and Social Justice and the Elizabeth D. Rockwell Center on
Ethics and Leadership at the Hobby School of Public Affairs, University of Houston.

Watch and listen to Inauguration Day Poet Amanda Gorman perform her poems The Hill We
Climb (from the Jan. 20, 2021 Inauguration, here with full text and ASL interpretation) and In this
Place (an American Lyric) with lesson plan here, 'Earthrise' and Roar . Listen to Pulitzer Prize
recipient Jericho Brown read his poem “Inaugural” (audio and text).

How to end racism and violence in policing? View “100 Years of Racism in US Policing” in 4 short
films. and listen/watch ACLU policing experts Jeffery Robinson, Paige Fernandez and Carl Takei
discuss this question https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gy7QRZ4uMu0&feature=youtu.be .

Webinar on Remaking the Economy: Closing the Racial Wealth Gap and the Case for
Reparations, Thursday, February 18, 2pm What could formal acknowledgement of the tremendous
costs, economic and otherwise, of slavery, Jim Crow, redlining, and other racist policies look like?
How would the mechanics of reparations work and what does repair require? Speakers: William A.
(“Sandy”) Darity and Kirsten Mullen, authors of From Here to Equality: Reparations for Black
Americans in the Twenty-First Century, Dedrick Asante-Muhammad, Chief of Race, Wealth, and Community
for the National Community Reinvestment Coalition and Gary Cunningham, CEO of Prosperity Now, a national
nonprofit focused on building a fair and just economy free from structural inequity and racism. More info and
registration: https://info.nonprofitquarterly.org/reparations-wealth-gap

Read NAACP Crisis magazine’s 110th Anniversary issue, including a profile of Vice President
Kamala Harris, an interview with President Barack Obama, an article about Cori Bush (the first Black
woman elected to Congress from Missouri) and an essay on sports and social justice.
https://issuu.com/thecrisismagazine/docs/the_crisis_december_2020

With Kamala Harris’s election to the Vice Presidency, the US Senate now has no Black women.
This 4-minute news story (audio plus transcript) explains why and features Marquita Bradshaw,
Tennessee Democratic candidate for US Senate in 2020.

Listen to a 25-minute interview with Black Lives Matter Co-Founder Opal Tometi on the Fight for
Racial Justice or read the full episode transcript of the January 2021 Seeking Peace podcast.

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A publication of Blount County Showing Up for Racial Justice (SURJ) February 2021