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Sandra Bland Day: Let’s Continue to Do the Work
This past weekend I had the opportunity to attend Sandra Bland Day in Austin. The amazing Community Advocacy and Healing Project organized the event.
Sandra Bland’s death hit me hard back in 2015. And whenever I think something is hard for me as a white person, I pause. I try to put myself in the shoes of People of Color to the extent that I can. At the Sandra Bland Day event, I got to listen to a Black woman talk about what Sandra’s story was like for her. She explained that most of the police brutality she had witnessed prior to that point had been on Black men. Those … Read More
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White Supremacy Culture: How do we dismantle it?
The play illuminates white supremacy culture. It tasks each of us with thinking about the role that we play in upholding it or dismantling it. Last week I had the honor of watching Notes from the Field at the Zach Theatre. The play illuminates white supremacy culture and tasks each of us with thinking about the role that we play in upholding it or dismantling it.
Zach Theatre describes the work in this way:
… Read More“Incredibly timely and moving, Notes from the Field depicts the personal accounts of individuals caught in America’s school-to-prison pipeline as they navigate inequities in their communities. Based on interviews with over 250 people living and working