By Chantal Ford — 2020
Do we realize just how much of an influence music really has on us and our cultural identity?
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This book is about hope and a call to action to make the world the kind of place we want to live in.
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The Art of Protest, first published in 2006, was hailed as an “essential” introduction to progressive social movements in the United States and praised for its “fluid writing style” and “well-informed and insightful” contribution (Choice Magazine).
Alzo Slade participates in an “Emotional Emancipation Circle,” an Afrocentric support group created by the Community Healing Network and the Association of Black Psychologists. It’s a safe space for Black people to share personal experiences with racism and to process racial trauma.
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South LA Cafe founders, Joe and Celia Ward-Wallace, are working to bring change and positive impact to their neighborhood through their coffee shop and community-supported market.
Apuk Ayuel Mayen on art, culture and nation building in South Sudan.
In her insightful talk Hannah explores the lack of public space and its effects on community and how providing supportive spaces for the coming together of communities to realise ideas is the most important way to regenerate a city.
In her latest book, five-time #1 New York Times bestselling author Dr. Brené Brown writes, “If we want to find the way back to ourselves and one another, we need language and the grounded confidence to both tell our stories and to be stewards of the stories that we hear.
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It’s been 20 years since the movie (starring Julia Roberts) that made Erin Brockovich a household name was in theaters. Erin has some excellent advice regarding standing up for what’s right, taking care of yourself, and tackling things that seem impossible.
Most congregational leaders find it difficult to resist the dominant cultural expectation that different cultural and ethnic groups should stick to themselves -- especially when it comes to church.
After almost every presentation activist and writer Mia Birdsong gives to executives, think tanks, and policy makers, one of those leaders quietly confesses how much they long for the profound community she describes.