April 4, 2018
April 2018 News
Spring arrives with a new book about People's Power and our authors persisting in their purpose of building healthy communities . . . on the lectern, in public forums, and through the media. We thank them for their wisdom and their courageous modelling. New Village is also happy to note our new logo and a new newsletter format readable on many devices. Now you can catch us on the go!
Personal narrative of a union organizer who helped a Jim Crow city become a more equitable place.

This lively, illustrated memoir of Ernest "Home" Thompson (1906-1971) shows the great contribution that people’s coalitions can make to building equality and freedom. Thompson's attention to ending racial gerrymandering that segregated schools in Orange, New Jersey, also helped shape a more vibrant and accepting community and contributed to the civil rights movement nationwide.
Launch Event
Saturday, April 28: Come to the people's University of Orange to celebrate this new edition of Homeboy Came to Orange . The program will feature urbanists and a dance performance.
"Only the people can be entrusted with their own future."
~ Ernie Thompson, 1971
Talking about Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.
Voices of Change: We Must Have a Dream
April 4: On the 50th anniversary of his death, the University of California Alumni Chorus will honor Martin Luther King, Jr. in their spring concert. Author Carl Anthony will begin the evening by sharing reflections on the life of the civil rights leader and discussing his influence on the course of history.
WDET Detroit Today Podcast
Author Mindy Fullilove approaches the perception that race is a biological circumstance instead of a cultural construct in this new WDET Detroit Today interview with Stephen Henderson: How Fundamental Is Race to Our Understanding of Ourselves and Our Politics? The podcast explores the concept of race, where it comes from, and what it has done to America in an attempt to fully understand and realize Dr. King's dream.
Mindy Thompson Fullilove in Denver and Pittsburgh
Communities in Transition: Health Implications
April 5: Friends in Denver can join Dr. Mindy Fullilove, author of  Urban Alchemy , for an afternoon workshop and evening lecture hosted by the University of Colorado Denver School of Architecture and Planning to better understand the health impacts of disadvantaged and displaced communities, especially in black neighborhoods.
Reflections on 400 Years of Inequality
April 9-10: This two-day event in Pittsburgh aims to draw attention to the still present inequalities and discuss what changes need to be made for the future. Dr. Mindy Fullilove, who is also author of Root Shock and coauthor of Homeboy Came to Orange , will be lecturing and leading a seminar on the four hundred years of inequality African Americans have faced in the United States, from slavery to modern day.
Carl Anthony in Chicago and Tacoma
PolicyLink Equity Summit
April 11-13: The PolicyLink Regional Equity Summit in Chicago strives to bring activists together to demand true democracy and focus on making policy changes. Carl Anthony, author of The Earth, the City, and the Hidden Narrative of Race , and Paloma Pavel, author of Random Kindness and Senseless Acts of Beauty , will be discussing ways to build a coalition between environmental activism and social justice movements to reduce poverty and improve the economy.
Paloma & Carl
Debra Friedman Memorial Lecture
April 26: The Debra Friedman Memorial Lecture was created to honor the University of Washington Tacoma’s late chancellor and member of their urban studies department. Speaker Carl Anthony’s background in architecture, regional planning, and social justice directly connects him to Friedman's work. His lecture will discuss how race and other social structures are connected to the communities created and lived in today.
Media News features Sabra Moore
Photograph by Susan Elizabeth Ryan
Sabra Moore’s Wall Quilts
THE Magazine interviewed Sabra Moore, who brings the feminist art tradition to the land of Georgia O’Keeffe by collaborating with students to create vibrant mosaics.

"I wanted the children to feel that when we work together, they can be part of a something much bigger than they could make alone."
~Sabra Moore
¡COLORES!
Sabra Moore, artist and author of  Openings: A Memoir from the Women's Art Movement, New York City 1970-1992 , was featured on the New Mexico PBS's ¡COLORES! television.
"It was a form of storytelling and it was through that shared experience that we really were able to analyze both our oppression and our difference."
~ Sabra Moore

Green Schoolyard Resources

Sharon Gamson Danks, author of Asphalt to Ecosystems: Design Ideas for Schoolyard Transformation announces the 2018 US and International editions of Living Schoolyard Activity Guides, filled with 235 ideas written by 187 organizations in 27 countries! Download your FREE activity guide today and share the link. The guides are published by Green Schoolyards America and the International School Grounds Alliance.