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4-Week Anti-Racism Challenge (ARC)
Welcome to WEEK 2: October 13 - 19, 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: Vocal-Ky is a grassroots organization building a movement of low-income people dedicated to ending the AIDS epidemic, the war on drugs, mass incarceration, locally led by Shameka Parrish-Wright. Learn more about them here https://vocal-ky.org/
Support their good work here: https://vocal-ky.org/take-action/
WATCH: “The Pieces I Am” documentary exploring the life and writings of Toni Morrison. On Netflix: The Pieces I Am
READ / VIEW: “Stolen Girls: The Untold Story of the Leesburg Stockade Girls.” CNN examines what happened in 1963 when 15 Black girls challenged a Georgia law requiring them to purchase movie theater tickets in the back alley and lined up at the front box office instead. Stockade Girls
VISIT / SUPPORT: A new Black-owned business has opened in the Bardstown Road neighborhood. Visit Koko and Rae Caribbean Kitchen at 1511 Bardstown Rd. OPEN 7 DAYS/WK, 11am-9pm
LISTEN / LEARN: Red, Wine, and Blue is a nonprofit organization that “engages women at a grassroots level and drives media narratives to better reflect issues faced by the "everyday woman." They have taken a strong stance against book banning. On Thursday, October 19 from 7:30 - 8:30 p.m., they will host Angie Thomas, award winning author of The Hate U Give, one of the most banned books in the U.S. They’ll talk about book bans and why access to books is so important for everyone - especially kids - and how to protect access to books for all.
Sign up here
GIVE: Buy a copy of a banned book (possibly THE HATE U GIVE), and after you’ve read it, place it in a Little Library for others to read. Read more about the most banned books in the US here:
Top 10 Banned Books
WATCH: “The Path to Overcoming Systemic Racism,” TEDtalk. This 2020 video features MLK’s daughter, Dr. Bernice King; Rashad Robinson, CEO of Color of Change; and others as they process the impact of the deaths of George Floyd, Ahmaud Arbery, and Breonna Taylor and how we as a country should move forward. The Path to Overcoming Systemic Racism
WRITE: A journal entry on the above TEDtalk, especially considering the discussion from a 3 ½ year distance. How has time changed or cemented the ideas? Where are we now as we look back at the points made here? Any other thoughts you have on this discussion?
LISTEN: To “Listen Up!” The Louisville Urban League podcast with Lyndon Pryor and his guest Stachelle Bussey, Executive Director of The Hope Buss and The Hope Village, recorded Neighborhood Wars, 10/5/23. Listen Up
DONATE / SUPPORT: Learn about the Hope Buss and Hope Village here: https://www.thehopebuss.org.
Donate to their fundraising campaign, #31 Days of Hope here:
31 Days of Hope
VISIT: The Keeneland Library’s exhibit, “The Heart Of The Turf: Racing’s Black Pioneers” that runs through December 8th, 2023. The exhibit highlights the lives and careers of 80 African American horsemen and -women from the mid-1800s to the present through exhibited interpretive panels, photographs, artwork, and video interviews. Free, and open to the public. Learn more here:
Keeneland Library
READ: Portugal, too, is being forced to face the truth of its slave-trading past. Portugal
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!
Sign up here
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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