Posts Tagged ‘community’
Atlanta queer-friendly Black church is source of solace for LGBTQ youths: ‘I look over and see my people’
Atlanta’s queer Black residents finally have a welcoming and safe community to call their own in this church.
Read MoreMilwaukee Museum Days – Museums As Community Builders
Join us for a panel discussion. Representatives from the Greater Milwaukee Committee, Visit Milwaukee, and the City of Milwaukee discuss the importance of museums and their impact.
Read MoreHistoric Bronzeville Milwaukee (Museum Days with ABHM)
Learn about the work produced at Milwaukee Bronzeville Histories and the tools they’ve created to offer an interactive virtual platform designed to enrich, expand, and share the history of local African American communities.
Read MoreA “Coming To The Table” Gathering – Chicago, IL
Coming To The Table assembles racial healing talking circles to address interpersonal, community, and structural racial violence and trauma. At CTTT, descendants of those who were enslaved, descendants of slave owners, Indigenous community members, and all those interested in engaging in safe constructive dialogue are invited to come together.
Read MoreYour Black Matters
Peer Led Gathering By and For the Black Community. A Space To Give One Another Support. ALL Black people are welcome.
Read MoreBlack Arts Milwaukee Donation Event
Help celebrate and support Black Arts Milwaukee. BAM is increasing the availability and quality of African American arts and culture while providing MKE-based artists of color with employment, access, visibility, and development opportunities through high quality public performances.
Read MoreMeet the Black Women Working to End Food Insecurity
With inflation rising prices from rent to gas, nonprofits such as Feeding America have stepped in to help those who are the most vulnerable.
Read MoreA “Coming To The Table” Virtual Gathering – Boston
Coming To The Table assembles racial healing talking circles to address interpersonal, community, and structural racial violence and trauma.
Read MoreHow the Black queer community is re-imagining the family tree
Expelled from their families, LGBTQ people seek others who will become their chosen family, and some go as far as creating family trees.
Read MoreThe Exception to Exceptionalism: Why marginalized communities feel a collective guilt in America
When the federal building in Oklahoma City was bombed in 1995, the authorities and all media outlets immediately blamed it on “Islamic terrorists.” Members of the Muslim community around the country were attacked, verbally and physically. When Black people protest and one sets a building on fire, all Black people are blamed collectively.For White people the rules are generally the opposite.
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