Last Updated on December 16, 2020
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Everyone interested in racial justice is invited to attend the January meeting, which replaces the meeting originally planned for December.
Multiracial Awareness Discussion Group
Friday, January 15, 2021
10 AM on Zoom
Topic: A Study of Reparations
Discussion will be based on the Black Lives Movement [M4BL] policy statement on reparations.
Reserve and receive zoom link through Gil Fisher.
Email and phone: Resident Directory MyErickson.
References for the discussion:
https://m4bl.org/policy-platforms/reparations/
Read the page and then scroll down to the choices at the bottom. Click on the “Reparations Now Tool Kit.” This is a huge document but very thorough with many activities to stimulate thinking.
https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2014/06/the-case-for-reparations/361631/
A must-read essay by Ta Nehesi Coates in “The Atlantic” 2014. It’s really long but very worth the time. In October, 2020, it was named the “Top Work of Journalism of the Decade” by a panel of judges convened by NYU’s Carter Journalism Institute.
https://www.cnn.com/2020/08/15/us/slavery-reparations-explanation-trnd/index.html
A shorter summary of Reparations. Also worth the read.