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We are a small team of educators, leaders, and scientists dedicated to anti oppression work, which we believed can be accomplished through awareness, through confronting our fragility and through action. We will continue to promote literature that explains social dillems and conveys how systemic oppression impacts all of us.

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IT’S (almost) THAT TIME! ⠀
Check out our September schedule and mark your calendars 📆🚨⠀
We can’t wait to start reading (+reflecting +reeducating ourselves +revolutionizing our spaces) with you.⠀
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See the link in our bio to access the literature. ⠀
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We look forward to reading and learning with you! ⠀
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Starting September 14th we will launch our first quarter read for the 20-21 academic school year.⠀
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During the summer, we introduced some of Ta-Nehisi Coates literature and decided to focus on what it is like to be Black in America.⠀
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Between the World and Me takes the form of a book-length letter from the author, Ta-Nehisi Coates, to his son, Samori. In this long letter, Coates relates his personal experiences as a Black man in a country built on the oppression of Black people.⠀
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We will be posting discussion questions on IG and Twitter. We encourage interaction. If you want to be a part of a more intimate group DM us and we'll add you to our private Facebook group. Let's start learning or unlearning today. Tag a friend!!!! ⠀
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The book can be purchased at any book store, listened to on audible, or may be found at your local library. We always encourage people to support authors who discuss challenging topics and especially Black authors.

While communities across the country mourn the loss of George Floyd, Breonna Taylor, Tony McDade, Jamel Floyd, and so many more Black victims of police murder, many people want to learn how they can help. ⠀
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honors the work of abolitionists who have come before them, and those who organize now to create a better possible world. organizers refuse to allow the blatant co-optation of decades of abolitionist organizing toward reformist ends that erases the work of Black feminist theorists, so abolition can’t simply wait. ⠀
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Understanding the complexity of systemic racism can help you identify why there are cultural tensions between ethic minorities. Common stereotypes and misconceptions of racialized groups only reinforce and uphold white supremacy. Please read the definitions below. ⠀
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Ethnic Racism: A powerful collection of racist policies that lead to inequity between racialized ethnic groups and are substantiated by racist ideas about racialized ethnic groups. ⠀
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Ethic Antiracism: A powerful collection of antiracist policies that lead to equity between racialized ethnic groups and are substantiated by antiract ideas about racialized ethnic groups.

Caribbean America History Month.

An ally is someone from a more privileged racialized group who uses their power to advocate for a marginalized group(s). ⠀
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Allyship is an important part of any movement. It not only protects the oppressed group, but it also illustrates the significance of the social issues, which groups in power often benefit from and then ignore. Allyship is a lifelong process of learning, unlearning, empathizing and action. Performative allyship, on the other hand, is not a good thing. Just be an ally and cut the performative shenanigans.

Ibram X. Kendi is an author, historian and leading scholar who specializes in race and discriminatory policy in America. Kendi is currently the director of The Antiracist Research and Policy Center which will be coming to Boston University July 2020. Kendi’s activism focuses on confronting racist ideology and identifying racist policy. To learn more about Ibram Kendi’s click the link in bio. ⠀
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