Reparations Circle update
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“Children holding hands, walking with the wind. That is America to me- not just the movement for civil rights, but the endless struggle to respond with decency, dignity, and a sense of brotherhood to all the challenges that face us as a nation, as a whole.”
― John Lewis
Let's go to work!
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Let's Discuss Reparations for RVA or VA
Zoom - Monday November 23rd, 6 - 7:30 p.m.
Dr. Ron Daniels impassioned letter is a reminder to Speaker Pelosi and the rest of the nation that NOW is the time for "America to reckon with its original sin by finally awarding reparations to African Americans."
For this meeting, we will discuss how we can collectively support the effort to pass HR 40. We will also discuss what a reparations bill could look like for RVA or VA.
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Reparations 101
Zoom - Tuesday December 8th, 6 - 7:30 p.m.
The debate concerning reparations has become forefront in this country. If you are new to these conversations, join us to gather a deeper understanding of reparations and why it is important and necessary if America is truly to become whole.
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VOTE! VOTE! VOTE! VOTE! VOTE!
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The VA legislative just recently passed a police reform package. Although the package introduces reforms like prohibiting the use of chokeholds and no-knock search warrants, and making it easier to decertify police officers for misconduct, the reforms do not address qualified immunity or have clear cut objectives concerning community oversite of policing. How will the new laws help? What opportunity is there for change?
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I'm interested in participating in policing reform.
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"The Virginia Board of Education approved changes to the state's history curriculum to incorporate a more holistic version of Black history. The changes are effective immediately.
Edits to the current curriculum were recommended by Gov. Ralph Northam’s Commission on African American History Education in the Commonwealth, which delivered its report in August." - VPM/NPR
What do you think of the proposed changes? How can CTTT-RVA
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I am interested in participating in K-12 curriculum reform.
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As the future of Robert E Lee's statue is debated, check out this list of monuments that have been removed.
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JPMorgan Chase - Will utilize its expertise in business, policy and philanthropy and commit $30 billion over the next five years to drive an inclusive recovery, support employees and break down barriers of systemic racism.
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Lora M. Robins Speaker Series
This year the Lora M. Robins Speaker Series will present three nationally known thought leaders who will share their perspectives on the persistence and widening of racial and class inequities in education, the workplace, and throughout society. Join us in moving from aspirational ideas to ACTION.
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A ninth-grader at Open High School in Richmond will have her artwork unveiled
Friday, November 6th, 2020
3rd and Broad Street
(still working on getting a time)
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Watch HEARD premier on PBS stations nationwide.
"News coverage offers steady, lurid stories of violence, gangs and drugs in public housing. But to many Americans, public housing and urban poverty are “issues” that remain out of sight and out of mind.
In HEARD, these issues take on human faces. We’ll get to know current and former residents of the projects and hear them tell their own compelling stories. We’ll see how they’re surviving and thriving in spite of… and often because of the challenges they've had to overcome."
Thursday, November 12, 2020,
Check your local listings.
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Disparities In Housing | Racism: Challenging Perceptions
Thursday, November 19, 2020
6:00 pm to 7:30 pm
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Driving While Black: Race, Space and Mobility in America
"Discover how the advent of the automobile brought new mobility and freedom for African Americans but also exposed them to discrimination and deadly violence, and how that history resonates today."
Please note that VPM will no longer show this film after 11/10/2020
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Enslaved: Lost History of the Transatlantic Slave Trade,
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Samuel L Jackson, together with award-winning journalist and campaigner, Afua Hirsch along with Diving with a Purpose (DWP) – a group of underwater investigators examine the history of human trafficking of nearly 12 millions Africans to the Americas through the stories of the 2 million who never made it. |
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Episode 1: " Samuel L Jackson traces his ancestry to Gabon, visiting the coastal area of Loango National Park. Jackson teams up with Diving with a Purpose, water investigators who view the ocean floor as a graveyard and a crime scene. They dive the English Channel to find the 350-year-old wreck of an unidentified slave ship and discover its secrets. This is the oldest slave ship ever discovered, and deep on the dark ocean floor the divers make a remarkable find." - View Episode
Episode 2: "Afua goes to Brazil, once the world’s greatest supplier of sugar, to discover how Europeans' insatiable appetite for this sweetener drove the explosion of the slave trade in the 17th century, leading to a constant demand for the supply of cheap trans-Atlantic labour to work the plantations. Jackson reveals how slave owners came up with increasingly inventive ways to turn their losses into profits when trafficked Africans were lost at sea." - View Episode
Episode 3: "Samuel L Jackson is joined by journalists Afua Hirsch and Simcha Jacobovici, along with Diving with a Purpose (DWP) – a group of underwater investigators dedicated to restoring their ancestors' lost history. Together, they investigate the individual stories and events that helped bring an end to slavery in the United States." - View Episode
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