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4-Week Anti-Racism Challenge (ARC)
WEEK 4: April 21 - 28, 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:
READ / JOIN: For a virtual book discussion on Howard Thurman’s beautiful autobiography With Head and Heart on Sunday, April 30th at 2:00 - 3:00 p.m. Thurman was a principal architect of the civil rights movement, promoting radical nonviolence and shaping a generation of civil rights activists including Reverend Martin Luther King, Jr.
If you'd like to dive deeper into the story of his life, please register to join us. For details, click here: https://conta.cc/3LqndJU
WATCH: “Unprisoned,” new Hulu series, starring Kerry Washington and Delroy Lindo, about a young Black professional woman whose life is turned upside down when her father is released from prison and comes to live with her and her teenaged son.
LEARN: “America is segregated, so is pollution.” From Slate.com https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2021/08/climate-change-environmental-racism-pollution-segregation-black-americans.html
WATCH: We don’t want to end this Challenge without including once more this powerful short video of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. speaking just before the Poor People’s March on Washington in 1968. Viewing it was one of the pivotal points in our anti-racism journey so far. Our education had conveniently left out this information. King details the federal help given to white settlers (many of whom were European immigrants) as they spread west in the years after the Civil War–as opposed to the complete lack of support for Black people who were newly freed from enslavement--who had helped build the great wealth of this country--and who were also trying to make a home and living for their families. With no help. Imagine how different our country would be if they’d been given the same aid and opportunities.This short (1:14 min) segment of King’s speech explains: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pLV5y4utPKI&t=8s
REGISTER: for our Community Conversation with guest speaker Jecorey Arthur, Metro Councilman for District 4. May 30th from 7:00 - 8:30 p.m. Refreshments will be served. Learn more and register for this FREE event here:
https://www.earthandspiritcenter.org/class/a-community-conversation-with-metro-councilman-jecorey-arthur/
WATCH: “The Children’s Crusade” documentary. In 1963, the Civil Rights movement had faced multiple defeats across the south. There was discouragement in the movement as they tried to strategize new tactics. A young activist proposed an audacious plan: recruit school aged children to march. We may not imagine children in those dangerous scenarios. But they were there. And they got results. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5enZRwbnISQ
READ: University of Louisville professor of Pan African Studies, Dr. Ricky Jones’ April 4th Courier-Journal op-ed.
https://conta.cc/40UxyCo
ATTEND: Sowers of Justice Network’s upcoming forum, “Christian Nationalism & Authoritarianism’ with Bruce Maples on April 28th from 9:00 - 10:30 a.m. at Simmons College. To learn more and/or register at https://www.facebook.com/events/742820910851859/?m_entstream_source=timeline&paipv=0&eav=AfYNANTeyiaBN8I3saveoaP26phtPO3IC5LICuPZ2LY3gWEHk8_5yR3gjtFFD2Q7MdM&_rdr
LEARN: About how quilting has been used to tell stories of Black history. Visualizing Black History in Quilts with Dr. Carolyn Mazloomi
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ToXLhP7LiMg
READ: “The medical system has failed Black Americans for centuries. Could reparations be the answer?”
https://www.vox.com/policy-and-politics/23529685/healthcare-reparations-slavery-equity
PARTICIPATE / SUPPORT: Join the Future Ancestors’ Race4Justice on June 17th at the Norton Sports and Learning Center. This event was designed by a women-led student group. Inspired by Breonna Taylor, the movement that followed her tragic loss, and many other injustices, this race is about uniting our city to move forward.
To learn more and register: https://futureancestors502.org/.
ATTEND: Join the Coalition for the Homeless and the Metropolitan Housing Coalition as they host Homelessness Is a Housing Problem, with Gregg Colburn on Tuesday May 16th from 10:00 - 11:00 at the Bomhard Theatre. The event is free, but seating is limited. Reserve your seat here: https://bit.ly/43NDi3m
WATCH: Social Inequalities Explained in a $100 Foot Race - Please watch to the end. (4 minutes long) https://youtu.be/4K5fbQ1-zps
READ: from Time magazine: “The Physical Toll Systemic Injustice Takes on the Body.”
https://time.com/6266329/systemic-injustice-health-toll-weathering/
JOURNAL: Reflect on a negative experience or observation from your past having to do with race. Write about what you were thinking at the time and ways you would react or think about it differently now.
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 joining us for the ARC! We will do it again in July -- we hope you'll join us!
Debbi and Di
Use the link below to copy or download this ARC Tool to track your progress:
https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1KshnjV-w4a7bxa5IyfdBfZ-GRX7TqypB/edit#gid=446847735
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