Events

Being Black in the Workplace

This event will bring together a range of experts to explore what it means to be black in the working environment. Our panel will be sharing their experiences, highlighting what change can and needs to be made whilst highlighting resources and organisation who have already started the journey of supporting young and black people in the UK to navigate the workplace.

#YoungAndBlack

Following the impact of COVID-19 on BAME people across the world, the echoes of tragedies such Windrush and Grenfell and culminating in the murder of George Floyd in the US, we launched the #YoungAndBlack campaign alongside, My Life My Say and The Diana Award, and activist, Jermain Jackman. The #YoungAndBlack campaign is a safe space to share, listen and learn from the experiences of young Black people.

Speakers details to come.

UK YouthUK Youth is a leading national charity that exists to ensure all young people aged 9-25 are equipped to thrive and empowered to contribute at every stage of their lives. UK Youth provides young people aged 9-25 with life skills, delivered through a network of local youth organisations which make up the UK Youth Movement. The UK Youth Movement is made up of over 5,500 local youth organisations across the UK, reaching 1.6 million young people.

Footnotes & Indexes is hosting a free Intro to Black Feminism session on Sunday, Nov. 1st. This virtual gathering will run from 1:30 – 3:30, *Eastern Standard Time.

This session is open to all womxn who want to learn about the foundations of Black feminism and intersectionality. This is a safe, inclusive space for the curious who seek a starting point to Black feminism’s centuries-old history and principles.

Participants will receive one reading assignment, which will be used for a virtual discussion and group exercise. Register for a link to this online session and class materials.

Study Sessions are informal and intimate discussion groups. This study session opens out the ideas and themes of our exhibitions and research strand Sonic Continuum, and explores how black feminist authors and thinkers reconceptualise voice, performativity and community against patriarchal and racial oppression.

By discussing their radical aspirations and concurrent approaches to gender, race and class, our study sessions explore the global critiques, poetic tactics, and relational political projects of black women writers, and ask: how might we articulate alternative social and political formations?

This session is led by Lisa Palmer (De Montfort University) and explores the work of American prison abolitionist, philosopher, and author Angela Davis.

Reading

Angela Davis, Blues Legacies and Black Feminism: Gertrude “Ma” Rainey, Bessie Smith, and Billie Holiday (London: Penguin Random House, 1998)

A copy of the reading and meeting link will be available on booking.

Online. Free. Limited Capacity. Booking required.

Lisa Amanda Palmer is the Deputy Director of the Stephen Lawrence Research Centre at De Montfort University, Leicester. She was the former Course Director for the Black Studies undergraduate programme and Senior Lecturer in Sociology at Birmingham City University. Palmer’s research focuses on Black feminism, Black cultural politics and the intersection of race, racism, gender and sexuality. Her writing covers a broad spectrum of fields including the gendered politics of lovers’ rock music, the production of local community archives and the misogynoir faced by Black women in British public life. She is the co-author of the book Blackness in Britain (2016) and is currently writing her book on Black women in the UK’s lover’s rock reggae scene.

Image courtesy of National Portrait Gallery, Smithsonian Institution

Start the school year with this powerful Anti-Blackness/Anti-Racism professional development training opportunity!

Workshop Presenter:

Dr. Brian L. Wright, Award-winning Author and Associate Professor & Program Coordinator of Early Childhood Education, Department of Instruction and Curriculum Leadership, College of Education and Coordinator of the Middle School Cohort of the African American Male Academy at the University of Memphis

Entitled after the award-winning book, “The Brilliance of Black Boys” workshop will help educators, administrators, social workers/counselors, government officials, funders, and other educational equity stakeholders better understand and identify the promise, potential and possibilities of Black boys. For Black parents, families, and community members, it will be a refreshing reminder of the beauty and brilliance of our children and affirmation in the face of negative narratives and experiences with schools and other systems.

Drawing from a wealth of experience in early childhood education, Dr. Wright will present an asset- and strengths-based view of educating Black boys. This positive approach enables practitioners and school leaders to recognize, understand, and cultivate the diversity of social skills of Black boys in the early grades (Pre-K-3rd grade).

Two unique benefits are available to registrants only:

o Free electronic copies of select articles by Dr. Wright published in NAEYC’s Teaching Young Children Journal (usually only available to NAEYC members)

o Limited quantities of autographed copies of “The Brilliance of Black Boys”

This special workshop will provide practical skills and tools that can be put into practice right away including:

o Tangible illustrations of what is lost when Black boys are prevented from participating freely in boyhood, having to instead attend to adult and peer interactions and attitudes that view them as “bad boys” and “troublemakers”

o Classroom strategies to help young Black boys achieve their highest potential

o Other resources for supporting Black boys’ social-emotional development including a preview of “Black Boys are Lit” – an upcoming publication with a reading list of 300 authentic multicultural children’s books with Black boys as protagonist

“The Brilliance of Black Boys” is the fourth in a series of workshops as part of “Blacks, Believers & the Montessori Way” (BBMW) community awareness and empowerment campaign.

BBMW is sponsored by IMPACT LIVING Christian Center, a non-denominational faith community led by Black leaders, as a part of its planning process for opening Morning Glory Montessori, an all-boys, Afrocentric, Christian Montessori school in fall 2021. (www.impactlivingcc.org)

For more information about Morning Glory Montessori, click here.

This workshop is made possible by a grant from the Sheltering Arms Foundation.

The ACTIONS program at UCSF School of Nursing is proud to present Reimagining Black Motherhood: A conversation about the future of Black maternal health in the United States . This panel discussion will explore structural racism within maternal health care and its impact on Black mothers. This conversation is also an opportunity to envision ways to repair the harms done to Black women and find new ways to create new standards of maternal health care.

Zoom info will be emailed to attendees prior to the event.

Speakers

Rachel Hardeman, PhD, MPH

Assistant Professor, Division of Health Policy & Management

University of Minnesota School of Public Health

Dani McClain

Author, ”We Live for the We: The Political Power of Black Motherhood”

Contributing Writer at The Nation

Stephanie McLemore Bray (Moderator)

Nonprofit Executive

Creative Writer, Essayist

Learn more about our program at actions.ucsf.edu

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Black love is unique, because it can be different from everyone else’s experience. Black love means adapting, to one another and to the spaces you move through together. Black love is a fine balance of showing up and yielding space. It’s being available and present to really hear and support your partner, but it’s also understanding and making space for your partner to grow, change, and deal with existing in this world.

Black love is the ability to love your mate and be unapologetically black while celebrating black excellence. It’s the action of being proud of your heritage, hue, culture and having an unabashed pride along with it. Black love is a special kind of love due to the black experience and comes with its own unique aspects.

Black love is unapologetically loud and proud! We’re at a point in society where there are more positive examples of black love than ever before. It’s empowering! Our ancestors had restraints and restrictions put on how and who they could love. Now its time for us to show thw world tht we can love each other without suffrage.

Black Marriage Day is an annual celebration of marriage and family, and its importance in the African-American community.

Featuring Mistress of Ceremonies, Randi Myles, host for The Detroit Praise Network, our virtual celebration includes a number of performances and a salon discussion emphasizing why marriage matters.

PROGRAM DETAILS

Streamed live from the General Motors Theater at The Wright:

“Love and War” a dramatic presentation by Connell “CJ” and Lydia Brown

A dance performance by Together As One (Under the choreography of Alanna Phillips, LaShell’s School of Dance)

“Marriage Matters” a salon discussion featuring moderated by CEO and founder of Banks Construction LLC, Mr. Sean Banks; and Mrs. Toy Banks, founder of Better Wife Better Life

IMPORTANT NOTE

To receive email updates on Black Marriage Day, register for this ticket. To purchase tickets to attend Black Marriage Day, visit: https://www.thewright.org/events/black-marriage-day

This event is sponsored by Black Family Development, Black United Fund of Michigan, and Praise Detroit.