Motherwit by Garlinda Burton

11/18/2024

As you celebrate Thanksgiving, honor the other stories of .

NK360° Helpful Handouts: Guidance on Common Questions provide a brief introduction to teachers about important topics regarding Native American life, cultures, and communities. Native Life and Food: Food Is More Than Just What We Eat explores Indigenous relationships with food.

10/30/2024

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Understanding and Confronting Racism in the American Methodist Church The General Commission on Religion and Race presents a six-session small group study for Our Hearts Were Strangely Lukewarm: The American Methodist Church and the Struggle with White Supremacy. This study invites Christians—esp

09/10/2024

Nashville Posse, you're invited.

04/09/2024

RALEIGH, N.C. (RNS) — Pro-Israel Jews have denounced anti-Zionists as antisemitic and not really Jewish. But the ranks of this group are growing, and their criticism of Israel is catching on among younger U.S. Jews.

03/12/2024

Having committed "crimes of survival" as a homeless teen, Dominique Morgan experienced s*xual harm by a corrections officer and 18 months of solitary confinement during her time in prison. Upon her release in 2009 at the age of 27, Morgan says her discovery of advocacy left her both mystified and motivated.

"I had been in these systems for most of my life, and I didn't know that there were people who were fighting for the care and safety and the integrity of human life.”

From 2018 to 2022, Dominique directed Black and Pink, the largest prison abolitionist organization in the United States. Morgan is currently the director of the Fund for Trans Generations at the social justice philanthropy organization, Borealis Philanthropy.

(At the end of July, the Omaha City Council unanimously voted to rename a street in Morgan’s honor.)

Currently working to launch The Lydon House Opportunity Campus, a first-of-its-kind space devoted to serving system-impacted LGBTQIA2S+ youth, Morgan hopes to expand her work to serve the entire country with education and healing. “I want to create work that positions people to see their entire lives as valuable,” she concluded.

03/12/2024

(from The Washington Post)
Lawyer and activist Pauli Murray is widely credited for building the legal frameworks that paved the way for the civil rights and women’s rights movements. Late U.S. Supreme Court Justices Ruth Bader Ginsburg and Thurgood Marshall were particularly influenced by Murray’s arguments on race and gender.

In particular, Marshall hailed Murray’s 700-page summary of racism in state law as “the bible” of Brown v. Board of Education. (The funding for that book was funded by the Women's Division of the United Methodist Church.)

Murray was also considered instrumental in arguing for the 14th Amendment’s equal protection clause, which stated discrimination based on s*x is unconstitutional.

Murray self-described as a “he/she personality” earlier in life and also attempted to receive gender-affirming health care, including hormone therapy, but was repeatedly denied.

Pauli Murray applied to be a Supreme Court justice in 1971. Fifty years later, another Black women fulfilled Murray's dream.

03/08/2024

In 1968, Shirley Chisholm became the first Black Congresswoman, representing her district in New York state in the U.S. House of Representatives for seven terms. One year after her election to Congress, Chisholm became one of the founding members of the Congressional Black Caucus. In 1972, she made history yet again when she became the first Black (and second woman) to make a bid for the presidency, during which she survived three assassination attempts. In 2015, Chisholm was posthumously awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom.

03/08/2024

It's and we're here, we're loud, and we are the legs the world stands on!

International Women's Day is celebrated on Friday, March 8. But it's not just a celebration. It's a call to in society and at work.

03/07/2024

Tennis great Serena Williams has spent the past three decades making history. This includes being the first—and only—professional tennis player of any gender to accomplish a Career Golden Slam in both singles and doubles. (A Golden Slam means that a player has won the Australian Open, French Open, Wimbledon and U.S. Open.) She is also winner of an Olympic gold medal. Williams completed her singles Golden Slam on August 4, 2012, when she won her first singles gold medal at the London Olympics. A decade earlier, Williams and her stellar sister, Venus Williams, completed their doubles Golden Slam at the 2001 Australian Open—a year after winning Wimbledon and gold medals at the 2000 Sydney Olympics.

03/04/2024

In 2022, the Las Vegas Raiders hired attorney Sandra Douglass Morgan to be the team’s president, making her the first Black woman to hold that title for an NFL franchise. Prior to that role, Morgan was also the first person of color to serve as chair of the Nevada Gaming Control Board and the first Black city attorney in Nevada.

02/29/2024

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