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4-Week Anti-Racism Challenge (ARC)
Welcome to WEEK 4: October 27- November 3, 2023
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 the following:
SUPPORT: LSURJ (Louisville Showing Up for Racial Justice). Learn about the great work they are doing across our community. Louisville Showing Up for Racial Justice (LSURJ) is part of a national network of individuals and groups working to undermine white supremacy and work toward racial justice. Through community organizing, mobilizing, and education, LSURJ moves white people to act as part of a multi-racial majority for justice.
https://www.louisvillesurj.org/
WATCH / LEARN: As Dr. Carlos Hoyt describes how the racialization process evolves. (2:10 min) Racialization process
WATCH / LEARN: As Dr. Hoyt takes these ideas further and talks about how to go beyond racialization in this TED talk. (17:34 min)
TED talk
ATTEND: This spiritual ceremony to cleanse the soil of residual energy from gun violence in West Louisville at the Sacred Earth Community Garden on Saturday, Oct. 28th from 2:00 - 4:00 p.m. Located at 136 Tait Place (behind 4113 W. Market Mini-Mart) in Louisville.
JOURNAL: Set an intention for one day this week to notice and write down 5 or more of the racialized thoughts you experience. This is a private exercise so no one will see it, but being very aware and recording the ways our minds process racial issues is a step toward strengthening anti-racism within.
READ: Dr. Ricky Jones’ recent Courier Journal article, “Racism and incarceration are unavoidably linked. We need a more developed sense of justice.”
Dr. Ricky Jones article
ATTEND: In the above article, Dr. Jones extends the following Invitation: If you are in Louisville and would like to discuss this subject in more depth, please plan to attend the Christina Lee Brown Envirome Institute’s Theodore Sedgwick Distinguish Lecture Series at the Filson Historical Society on Wednesday, November 1 for a free talk by Mr. Charlie Grady, the CEO of “Hang Time.” He will speak on his innovative efforts to aid thousands of formerly incarcerated residents and their families impacted by the criminal justice system. Register here
WATCH: Silver Dollar Road, on Amazon Prime. This documentary, based on a 2019 Propublica article, highlights the covert ways the legal system keeps Black land ownership fragile and the racial wealth gap growing. Silver Dollar Road
ways the legal system has been exploited to keep Black land READ / LEARN: About the Leading Men Fellowship. Its mission: “Unlocking potential and changing the narrative by engaging young men of color as early childhood educators.” Leading Men Fellowship
REGISTER: to attend the Daughters of Greatness annual event at the Ali Center on November 11 from 8:30-10:00 a.m. Adria Johnson, CEO of Metro United Way, will be honored. Register here
READ: “Normalizing Injustice” a new landmark study (from the Color of Change) of the media’s distorted presentation of Black people in television crime dramas:
Normalizing injustice
ATTEND: Plan to attend, and ask a friend to join you, for the West Louisville Forum to meet author Omkari Williams, who will discuss her new book “Micro Activism, How You Can Make a Difference in the World (Without a Bullhorn).”
Where: St. Stephen Family Life Center, 1508 W. Kentucky St., Louisville, KY
When: November 6th at noon
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.
Thank you for participating in the ARC. We will be doing it again in January 2024. We hope you’ll join us!
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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