Coming Events:
Derek Smith Interview - Video Premiere (Wed. 10/28 6pm)
Derek Smith, associate professor of literature at Claremont McKenna College and executive board member of the Center for Law and Justice, speaks with Paul Grondahl of the NY Writers Institute.
The Time for Reckoning: Community Response - Live Conversation Premiere (Mon. 11/2 6pm)
An expanded panel made up of Albany community members and activists will have a follow-up online discussion in direct response to the statements made by the elected officials in the previous symposium. Be a part of the conversation by watching and sharing comments on the Facebook page of the All of Us social justice group.
Watch the Albany Symposium:
The Time for Reckoning: Confronting Systemic Racism, Seeking Justice and Reimagining Society - Video Premiered (Mon. 10/26 9pm)
The symposium strives to create an ongoing dialogue between community members of color who live in urban communities where tensions with police run high and elected officials whose job is to protect and serve the public.
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COMMUNITY VOICES
I AM A MAN
I Am A Man, a monologue written by Marcus Gardley, is a deeply heartbreaking invitation to imagine a visualization of the human being behind one of the countless hashtags we see all too often and how they would like to be honored. In this video, Julian Tushabe takes away the choice to imagine and uses his own voice and physical being to humanize the message further.
Black Theatre Troupe of Upstate NY
RESOURCES
Slavery By Another Name
By Douglas A. Blackmon and the Public Broadcasting System
Slavery by Another Name is a 90-minute documentary that challenges one of Americans’ most cherished assumptions: the belief that slavery in this country ended with the Emancipation Proclamation. The film tells how even as chattel slavery came to an end in the South in 1865, thousands of African Americans were pulled back into forced labor with shocking force and brutality. It was a system in which men, often guilty of no crime at all, were arrested, compelled to work without pay, repeatedly bought and sold, and coerced to do the bidding of masters. Tolerated by both the North and South, forced labor lasted well into the 20th century.
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“The Time for Reckoning: Confronting Systemic Racism, Seeking Justice and Reimagining Society” premieres October 26th at 9:00pm on WMHT's NY Now.
"The Time for Reckoning" addresses systemic racism in the Capital Region’s justice systems, in the wake of George Floyd’s murder by a Minneapolis police officer.
Its overarching goal is to imagine a just society free of systemic racism, where Black, Indigenous, and People of Color (BIPOC) truly have no reason to fear that they or a loved one will lose their lives at the hands of police.
“The Time for Reckoning” achieves this by providing a multi-media, interactive and collaborative forum for the voices of local leaders and impacted community members, local elected and city officials, and nationally-known experts.
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