Sunday, May 30, 2021 • 2-4pm https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=skO3XrdDOSI Black women live at an intersection of society that overlaps between race and gender. Consequently, they must work twice as hard to defy a historical fallacy that they are loud, angry, and intimidating. The Journal of Negro Education suggests an emotional, physiological, and psychological cost to gendered racism. … Continue reading Voices of Black Women in Vermont
Category: Events
“Black is the Body” Book Club
Book club meeting to discuss the first half of the book: Wednesday, May 12, 6:30 pm. Register on Zoom. Q&A with the author: Wednesday, May 26, 6:30pm. Register on Zoom. We are relaunching our book club with UVM professor Emily Bernard's wonderful book Black is the Body. This series of interconnected essays follow Dr. Bernard's … Continue reading “Black is the Body” Book Club
Panel to Discuss Slavery Amendment
November 21, 2019 • 6:30 PM • Courcelle Building, 16 North St. Extension, Rutland We are excited to be hosting legislators and civil rights leaders for a forum discussion of PR.2, at 6:30 on November 21, 2019 at the Courcelle Building in Rutland. PR.2 is a bill which would create a Vermont constitutional amendment clarifying … Continue reading Panel to Discuss Slavery Amendment
Save the Date! Freedom Fund Dinner 2019
August 16, 2019 • 5:30-8:30 • Franklin Conference Center, Rutland Ticket and sponsorship information coming soon.
Know Your Rights Training
Saturday, March 9, 8:30 am to 2:30 pm • Grace Congregational Church, Rutland Click here to register! As concerns about government-sponsored violence and discrimination toward immigrants—in particular non-white people who are assumed to be undocumented immigrants— continues to dominate national and local news, Vermonters are more vocally expressing confusion, concern, and outrage over what is … Continue reading Know Your Rights Training