[Click here to read about the following – second session – on July 21, 2020, and click here to learn about the third and final session held on July 28, 2020.]
This past Tuesday, July 14, over 60 people joined us for the first session of Conversations on Race & Racism in 2020, co-facilitated by Food for the Spirit co-founder Rebekah Williams and our friend and partner, Petra Page-Mann of Fruition Seeds. A video recording of that first session is embedded below.
As you will see in the below video, this past week’s program also featured two special guests, Jim Wood and Earl Greene of Wayne Action for Racial Equality.
Conversations on Race & Racism are sponsored by 13 libraries in the Pioneer Library Systems. A list of those libraries sponsors are below.
To conclude this past week’s session, participants were invited to engage in further inquiry by viewing a presentation by Jeffery Robinson, the ACLU’s top racial justice expert, between this week’s session and next. A link to Mr. Robinson’s presentation and some questions to ponder are below.
For those of you who were unable to attend last Tuesday’s program, here it is on YouTube:
The link to the presentation by Jeffery Robinson is here: “The Truth About the Confederacy in the United States” and some questions to consider while viewing or afterwards are:
- What is the role of educational institutions in teaching our shared history?
- Why might it be important to examine what we (as a nation) have memorialized and created monuments of?
- What is the role of the media in shaping our collective consciousness?
Here is a list of the libraries that sponsored this event:
- Naples Library
- Newark Public Library
- Wadsworth Library
- Marion Public Library
- Palmyra Community Library
- Lyons Public Library
- Geneva Public Library
- Livonia Public Library
- Victor Farmington Library
- Sodus Community Library
- Clyde-Savannah Public Library
- Gorham Free Library
- Macedon Public Library