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Black History 365, 366 In a Leap Year
Reader,
When Carter G. Woodson envisioned Negro History Week (which eventually became Black History Month), he and others didn’t imagine it would be siloed to just February. He saw this as a template for how to infuse Black history into curriculum across schools and institutions year-round. Unfortunately, we haven’t reached that worthwhile dream, but we must press on.
At a time when people across the board are using anti-Blackness and structural efforts towards justice to split communities apart, now is the time to hold the line on what we believe and who we believe in. Our Black students don’t just matter. They deserve the breadth of dignity, equity, and shared humanity this world can provide. Our communities, including our educators and families, deserve this as well.
In Black communities (and others, surely), the phrase “We all we got” has been a clarion call for mutual care through the strife. For the coming years, I urge us to hold to this spirit. Let’s do right by our ancestors and build accordingly.
Executive Disorder: Mapping The War on Equal Opportunity
In response to the Trump administration signing multiple diversity, equity and inclusion executive orders that will impact our communities civil liberties even further, the African American Policy Forum created Executive Disorder: Mapping the War on Equal Opportunity. This project provides the analytic tools to interpret, resist, and connect the dots between current attempts to turn back the clock on democracy and to return us to an era of re-segregation. Materials below explain what each executive order does, how the executive orders are dangerous, and how to counter these ideological policies with messaging!
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