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This is your own personal journey. To participate, we ask that you complete at least 3 activities this week. You can use the ARC Tracking tool below to monitor your progress. Choose from of the following:
REGISTER: to vote if you haven’t already. Voting registration in Kentucky closes at 4:00 p.m. on October 7th. You can register HERE
You can check your registration and polling location HERE
Please make your voting plan well in advance!
ATTEND: Sankofa Experience at ROOTS-101 African American Museum at 124 North 1st St., Louisville, KY. This free, enriching performance is designed to celebrate African American culture and heritage through powerful stories, music, and history. According to Today’s Woman, this is an, “unforgettable experience that will light up your soul and inspire your spirit!”
Thursday, October 10, 2024 from 12:00 PM -1:30 PM
Learn more about it HERE
WATCH: This short, student-created film about young people in Washington, DC volunteering to clean and help refurbish graves at Black cemeteries.
D.C. youth volunteer to preserve long-neglected and historic Black cemeteries
REGISTER / LEARN: For the upcoming Listen Learn Act class, “Racial Justice, Mindfulness and The Election.” As those seeking justice and peace, can we be mindful, faithful, and honest as we approach the 2024 election in times of such discord and mistrust? How do we look squarely at our history of voting injustice and challenge it in ways that move us closer to equity? Join us as we explore these and other questions with Black leaders such as ACLU’s Amber Duke, NAACP’s Raymond Burse, Metro Councilwoman Paula McCraney, and Charles Booker.
Learn more about this free course: Register here
Watch this short video (3 min.) with Joe Phelps and Di Kerrigan talking about the class. Watch here
READ: New York City schools will implement Black Studies for all students Pre-K - 12. Read about it here.
Also, the curriculum is available to the public online at this Link
WATCH: In this short interview, Black basketball player, Jaylen Brown, talks about what he’ll do with his multi-million dollar contract with the Boston Celtics. Interview
REGISTER / LEARN: Join us for this free Community Conversation at the Earth and Spirit Center with Velvet Welch, of the Sacred Earth Community Garden. Velvet founded the garden as a way to fight violence and food insecurity in the Shawnee neighborhood. She’ll talk about what inspired her to create the garden and will bring several of her gardening students with her.
Learn more and sign up HERE
JOIN / READ: “The Wall Between” Reading Group
October 9 & 23 and November 13, 5:30-7pm
Anne Braden Institute, Ekstrom Library, UofL Belknap Campus
To celebrate 100 years since local anti-racist journalist and organizer Anne Braden’s birth, the ABI is hosting a campus and community book group to read and discuss her 1958 memoir, “The Wall Between.” The book unpacks the psychology of white southern racism as it entwined with 1950s anticommunist hysteria. It does so through Braden’s account of a sensationalized housing desegregation case in Louisville that resulted in the home’s dynamiting and Anne and her husband Carl jailed for sedition.
Moderated by Braden biographer and retired UofL professor Cate Fosl, the group will meet three times. Come to all three sessions, or come to any that you can
To sign up for the reading groups, Click here
“The Wall Between” can be purchased at Carmichael's Bookstore for 20% off at the mention of Anne Braden Institute Reading Group.
ATTEND: (& support Black artists) The “Artists and Afros” Art Show featuring Black arts that highlight joy, culture and heritage on Oct. 5 and 6 at the Norton Healthcare Sports and Learning Center. Learn more HERE
JOURNAL: Think about the racial justice issue most pressing on your mind/heart at this time. Write about it. Look up an article or two to better inform yourself on it. Find one thing, large or small, you can do this week toward improving the problem. **Please let us know if you do this. We’d love to hear what you’re thinking about and working on.
WATCH: This short (4:31) video in which Eboni Cochran of REACT (Rubbertown Emergency Action) talks about the challenges and struggles of Louisville’s West End residents due to the close proximity of chemical companies’ emissions in their neighborhoods. Eboni often co-leads the Environmental Justice Bus Tour with Earth and Spirit Center’s Tim Darst Watch here
CREATE your own anti-racism activity. If you like, please share it with us at dikerrigan@listenlearnact.org so we can pass the idea on to others.
CONNECT: Invite a friend to the 4-week ARC. Just send them this link to sign up!
https://lp.constantcontactpages.com/sl/RYVOcxz
Thank you for your commitment.
Debbi and Di
Use the link below to copy or download this ARC Tool to track your progress:
ARC tracking tool.xlsx
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