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Category: Truth and Reconciliation
Read, Watch, Learn about Racism and Anti-Racism, Week of June 21, 2020
How to Be an Anti-Racist. Ibram X. Kendi interviewed by Dr. Charlene M. Dukes, president of Prince George’s Community College. The archival video is available until August 19, 2020. Click here to listen. Program starts at the 5 minute mark….
Read MoreTalks @ Pulitzer Webinar: Indigenous Lands and the Land-Grant University System, April 21, 2020
Passed in 1862, the Morrill Act gave 11 million acres of public land to states to sell off to endow fledgling land-grant colleges. A grant only in name, the Morrill Act was a wealth transfer from tribal nations to American…
Read MoreLand-grab universities: expropriated Indigenous land is the foundation of the land-grant university system
“In 1862, President Abraham Lincoln signed the Morrill Act, which distributed public domain lands to raise funds for fledgling colleges across the nation. . . . The Morrill Act worked by turning land expropriated from tribal nations into seed money…
Read MoreKerwin Webb: Equal Justice Initiative Historical Marker in Eatontown, January 29, 2020
On Wednesday, January 29, 6:30-8:30 PM at the award-winning program “Let’s Talk About Race” at the Red Bank Public Library, 84 W. Front St., Red Bank, Kerwin Webb of the Greater Red Bank NAACP will present a program on efforts by…
Read MoreThe Collective Healing That is Owed
Zenobia Jeffries Warfield, a senior editor at YES! Magazine, provides a comprehensive review of attempts made to receive reparations since emancipation as well as describing current efforts. “No longer about a one-time payout to Black folks, reparations today are about…
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