[Click here to learn about the first session held on July 14, 2020, and click here to learn about the third and final session held on July 28, 2020.]
On Tuesday, July 21, we hosted the second 2020 session of Conversations on Race & Racism with over fifty people in attendance. A video recording of the second session is embedded below.
Two special guests were invited: Alison Espinoza of Rootworker’s Croft in West Bloomfield NY; and Jessica Gilbert from Rushville NY, who is also a PhD Candidate at the SUNY University at Buffalo and a food justice activist.
In 2020, Conversations on Race & Racism are sponsored by 13 libraries in the Pioneer Library Systems. A list of the sponsoring libraries are below.
For further inquiry, participants are encouraged to view a presentation by Chris Bolden-Newsome, an urban farmer and youth educator from Sankofa Community Farm, which is a part of Bartram’s Gardens in Philadelphia, PA. A link to the 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 homework presentation is here: “Chris Bolden-Newsome” and here are some questions to consider while viewing or afterwards:
- How has your personal discomfort or hopelessness regarding the suffering of others led to apathy in your life? In what ways do you tune out to the suffering of others? In what ways might you tune in more to the suffering of others in a way that is productive and leads to action?
- What might be some opportunities that can emerge from this current racial and social crisis that we are in?
- What might it look like to willingly and intentionally engage in suffering or struggle together with those that are different then ourselves?
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