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Closing the Racial Wealth Divide

Event info: Friday 23 January 2009 – 7:00pm to 9:00pm

with Meizhu Lui, Dedrick Muhammad and Amaad Rivera Three national experts join us to both celebrate the election of Barack Obama and discuss the persistent disparities of wealth that still exist along racial lines. The forum corresponds with the release of “State of the Dream 2009,” a timely study examining racial wealth disparities. Over the [...]

Tagged as: community, economics, race in America, social movements, wealth

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“The Dhamma Brothers” Film and Discussion

Event info: Thursday 11 December 2008 – 7:00pm to 9:00pm

THE DHAMMA BROTHERS tells a dramatic tale of human potential and transformation as it closely follows and documents the stories of the prison inmates at Donaldson Correction Facility who enter into this arduous and intensive program. This film, with the power to dismantle stereotypes about men behind prison bars also gives you hope for the [...]

Tagged as: meditation, peace, prisons, race in America, reparations

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“Chicago 10″ Film and Discussion

Event info: Friday 19 September 2008 – 7:00pm to 9:00pm

CHICAGO 10 is dramatic documentary that explores the build-up and unraveling of the 1968 Chicago Conspiracy Trial with Abby Hoffman, Tom Hayden, Bobbie Seale and Dave Dellinger. A parable of hope, courage and challenge as it portrays the struggle of young Americans speaking out and taking a stand in the face of an oppressive and [...]

Tagged as: history, politics, race in America, social movements

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“There Are No Illegal People” with photojournalist David Bacon

Event info: Tuesday 9 September 2008 – 7:00pm to 9:00pm

Illegal People: How Globalization Creates Migration and Criminalizes Immigrants, with David Bacon “David Bacon is the conscience of American journalism; an extraordinary social documentarist in the rugged humanist tradition of Dorothea Lange, Carey McWilliams, and Ernesto Galarza.” —Mike Davis, author of No One Is Illegal Jamaica Plain has a rich history as a “landing pad” [...]

Tagged as: art, capitalism, community, economics, immigration, politics, race in America, social movements

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A Report from New Orleans: 3 Years Later

Event info: Friday 27 June 2008 – 7:00pm to 9:00pm

“14 Hands, 7 Toolbelts, and 1 New Orleans Family: A Report Back from Post-Katrina Louisiana”   Did you know that, since Hurricane Katrina, Boston-area building trades people have made several trips to rewire and replumb flood-damaged homes on the Gulf coast? In fact, a crew of seven local electricians, plumbers, and carpenters just returned from [...]

Tagged as: community, New Orleans, race in America, report-back, service

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Hillary Jordan, Author of “MUDBOUND” (Reading)

Event info: Friday 2 May 2008 – 7:00pm to 9:00pm

  “This is storytelling at the height of its powers: the ache of wrongs not yet made right, the fierce attendance of history made as real as rain, as true as this minute. Hillary Jordan writes with the force of a Delta storm.” – Barbara Kingsolver Please join us for an intimate reading with Hillary [...]

Tagged as: art, author's reading, history, race in America

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“A Dream in Doubt” Documentary Screening

Event info: Friday 18 April 2008 – 7:00pm to 9:00pm

It was the first hate-based murder in the wake of September 11, 2001–one of thousands of reported and unreported hate crimes in the years that followed. The victim: a turbaned Sikh man in Mesa, Arizona, where his family had sought religious freedom, searching for the American Dream. Meet a family still determined to believe in [...]

Tagged as: militarism, race in America, reparations

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“Banished” Documentary and Discussion

Event info: Friday 18 January 2008 – 7:00pm to 9:00pm

First Church in Jamaica Plain, Unitarian Universalist 6 Eliot St, Jamaica Plain, MA From the 1860s to the 1920s, dozens of towns and counties across America violently expelled entire African American communities, forcing thousands of black families to flee their homes. A century later, these towns remain all white. BANISHED tells the story of three [...]

Tagged as: community, race in America, reparations, social movements

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