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William SmithDate: February 24, 2020Time: 4:00pm-6:00pmPlace: Montezuma Hall TheatreTitle: Racial Battle Fatigue! What is it doing to me?
San Diego Public Library and the University of San Diego Presents Michele Norris- “Eavesdropping on America’s Conversation on Race”. Michele Norris is a Peabody Award-winning journalist, founder of The Race Card Project and Executive Director of The Bridge, The Aspen Institute’s new program on race, identity, connectivity and inclusion.
Join us on February 24 as NPR’s Michele Norris discusses “The Race Card Project” and how six-word snapshots paint a vivid picture of America’s attitudes and experiences about race during a fascinating moment in American History.
This event is free and open to the public.
Refreshments will be available after the presentation.
Parking: We recommend that you enter campus via the West Entrance, park in the West Parking Structure, and take the tram up the hill to the first stop.
GENERAL MEETING – OPEN TO ALL
Black Men United is comprised of black men and those who support black men. Members are those who participate in the organization’s activities; live, work, and serve in the organization’s community; advocate for justice on behalf of the organization’s community; and seek to give voice to those without voice. Members are people of faith, clergy, and representatives of diverse, non-profit and community organizations.
Based in San Diego’s 4th Council District, Black Men United’s community is African-American people, African immigrants, American Indian, Latino, and others who, by experience, consciousness and culture, empathize with the black experience.
Black Men United’s vision is to serve as a unifying, empowering and moral influence in its community.
Black Men United’s purpose is convene, guide and galvanize black men (and those who support black men) to enable and empower its members and its community to address their relevant spiritual, individual, interpersonal, societal needs.
Black Men United’s activities and achievements reflect a commitment to faith, constancy, individual and community development, justice, and inclusion. Much of BMU’s work is accomplished through its Committees.
Registration for this event will close on February 25, 2020 @ 5:30pm.
There are 27 seats remaining.
Event Details
Please come join teaching artist Stacie Birky Greene for a fun and educational collage-making workshop.
“Three Folk Musicians” by Romare Bearden, a gifted African-American artist will be introduced.
Bring your creativity and make a masterpiece! All supplies will be provided.
Space is limited. Please register online.
The evening will begin with heavy hors d’oeuvres at 5:30pm – 6:30pm.
The “Passing the Torch” program will begin at 6:45pm – 9:00pm immediately followed by a book signing.
Join professor Bernard Lafayette who was appointed by Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., the first national chairman of the Poor Peoples Movement, and coordinator of the Selma, Alabama voting rights movement
Program also features:
Heavy hors d’oeuvres
Student led expressions – connecting today’s social activism to that of the 1960’s
Spoken Word
Passing The Torch short film clip
Artistic expression of Ms. Amelia Boynton- the Matriarch of the voting rights movement
“In Peace and Freedom” book signing
Q & A
Gateway Educational Foundation & Institute works to preserve the rich history of the civil rights movement and honor the unsung heroes. We provide educational dialogues such as documentaries, films, passing the torch youth summits and assemblies, Kingian non-violence training workshops for adults and teens, effective black parenting classes to celebrate black heritage, and equip African American parents with culturally relevant parenting skills.
Come volunteer at the 2020 FANCY Teen Girls Expo!
Join us on Tuesday, Feb. 25 at 6:30 p.m. for a FREE Jacobs Presents: Black History Month Celebration event!
To commemorate African-American women in film, we’ll be screening scenes from Netflix’s “Never Heard” by local filmmaker Tamera Hill and the film short “Together” at Jacobs Center’s Celebration Hall. After the screening, there will be a panel Q&A discussion and Q&A, moderated by Black & Magazine Editor-in-Chief Chida Rebecca.
“Never Heard” tells the story of a father who is incarcerated for a crime he swears he did not commit and his son who is lured into Los Angeles’ merciless drug world and forced between God and gang life.
A family must make a critical decision that will change their lives forever in the film short, “Together,” featuring Efé McWorther, winner of the 2019 D.C. Black Film Festival Actress of the Year award.
RSVP requested; not required.
IF YOU HAVE A FELONY, you are invited to attend (at no cost) our monthly networking dinner. We want to take an opportunity to introduce you to the building trades, and hopefully, a career.
About this Event
Black Authority in the post-Obama era: History, Complexity, and Identity is a three-day nonresidential conference in the Group Relations tradition that will provide opportunities for us to collectively explore, experience , and learn about Black authority. A distinct feature of this conference is that, in this temporary organization, the entire staff is Black – that is, all are of African descent.
This will be the third time in the last two decades that a Group Relations Conference of this kind will be offered to build on Group Relations practice and theory around Black Authority. In this important moment in history, we will gather to examine and advance system dynamics and transformation. Each time we have gathered to encounter and explore Black authority in a given moment in history new and emergent dynamics have become available to us.
In this third conference on Black Authority, we will study and experience intergroup dynamics, authority relations, and leadership/followership dynamics, and we will participate, observe, and reflect on the mutual and complex relationships among identities, roles, valencies, groups, organizations, in a Black-led context.
All are invited to be open to the complex and nuanced dynamics – conscious and unconscious- when Blacks lead. What we shall emerge has not yet been fully revealed or created, and what we shall learn and develop lies in our collective conscious and unconscious about Black Authority. Please join us in this important work.
Conference Directorate
Diane Forbes Berthoud, Ph.D., Director
Beverly Malone, PhD, RN, FAAN, Associate Director
Candice Crawford-Zakian, Psy.D., Director for Administration
For more information please email BlackAuthorityGRC@gmail.com
Black Authority in the Post-Obama Era: History, Complexity & Identity is sponsored by Group Relations International (GRI) and RISE San Diego.
Group Relations International – We simply work on a better world. Our focus is on group relations and community, social justice and spirituality. www.grouprelations.org
RISE San Diego – works to elevate and advance urban leadership through dialogue-based civic engagement, dynamic nonprofit partnerships, and direct training and support to increase the capacity of urban residents to effect meaningful community change. www.risesandiego.org
