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4-Week Anti-Racism Challenge (ARC)
WEEK 2: April 12 - 19, 2024
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:
ATTEND: The annual Spring Concert, showcasing the talented students of HBCU Simmons College of Kentucky. This free event will feature their Jazz Ensemble, Concert Choir, and Symphonic Winds.
Thursday, April 18th, 6:30 pm
St. Stephen Baptist Church 1508 W. Kentucky St., Louisville, 40210
WATCH: “What Activism Really Means.” Janaya “Future” Khan says, "Everybody is born into a script they didn’t write for themselves. But activists defy that script.”
Watch here
ATTEND: The Friends of the Town Clock Church in New Albany are inviting one and all to a Commemorative Service honoring all those who have lost their lives to lynching and other forms of racial violence. In conjunction with “Unmasked: The Anti-Lynching Exhibits of 1935 and Community Remembrance in Indiana,” an exhibit at the Underground Railroad Visitors Center.
Location: 300 E. Main Street on April 15th. Time: 6:30pm.
LISTEN: Hear/watch Golden State Warriors’ guard, Moses Moody, deliver and discuss his powerful high school poem, “He Beat the Streets.” Listen here
READ / LEARN: Jemar Tisby, New York Times bestselling author and professor at Simmons College talks about the suppression of discussions on race in religious colleges. Read here
LEARN: Did you listen to Louisville’s WLOU Soul Station while growing up? You may not have known that it was one of America’s first Black owned radio stations! Learn more here: WLOU
LISTEN / READ: Krista Tippet’s Podcast, “On Being” featured a conversation between Resma Menachem, author of My Grandmother’s Hands and Robin D’Angelo, author of White Fragility. The episode was titled, “Towards a Framework for Repair.” You can listen to the podcast or read the transcript here: Listen here
READ: “Yale Apologizes for its Role in Slavery.” Read here
ATTEND: Register to join us on April 24 at 6:00 p.m. at the Earth and Spirit Center for a free Community Listening Session with Dr. Catherine Fosl, one of the lead authors of the disturbing report on policing patterns in Louisville’s history. “History of Policing in Louisville: A Fact-Finding Report on Institutional Harms.” Dr. Fosl has worked for racial justice in Louisville for decades alongside many other civil rights giants such as Anne Braden, Mattie Jones, Rev. Louis Coleman and Carla Wallace.
Register here
LEARN: The history of the song, “Strange Fruit” which was popularized by Billie Holiday, but was written by a Jewish New York City public school teacher, Abel Meeropol. He had seen a photograph of the 1930 lynching of Thomas Shipp and Abram Smith in Marion, Indiana, and wrote a poem about it for the teacher union’s journal. Strange Fruit
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/NmVFOfl
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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