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Granby Celebrates Juneteenth 2023

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A Prayer Vigil for Racial Justice - 2023

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Courageous conversations: Book Banning

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Courageous Conversations: Black History Profiles

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God and Race

A virtual 30-minute weekly Bible Study: God and Race Wednesdays, March 1 - 31, 2023 @ 7:00 pm

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Silent Vigil on Granby Green

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Honoring Dr. King with Reflections on a Civil Rights Tour

Here is the link to the video recording: https://us02web.zoom.us/rec/share/-0fkFv6O1QaVl1fTmjf9aQJ5Ij3TuoyeGVh-tgqvpHhfumcgZcGIg2PCwkZaFf...

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Granby Area Churches: Honoring Dr. King with the messages based on becoming The Beloved Community

Here are the links to the video recordings: Granby UCC - https://youtu.be/Q7D3o3m7Avk Valley Brook - https://youtu.be/ihcEYEAYd4U

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Tzedek Shabbat: Honoring Dr. King with the Jewish Community

Here is the link to the video recording: https://fb.watch/i71xQVfb2B/

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Dialogues on race discussions

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How to Raise Antiracist Children

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Imprinted: Illustrating Race

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Teamwork Makes the Dream Work: Belonging and Allyship Part 2

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Teamwork Makes the Dream Work: Belonging and Allyship Part 1

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After Juneteenth...What's Next?

Jan 21

Bryan Stevenson: Justice System Reformer

“Each person in our society is more than the worst thing they’ve ever done.” This is one of Bryan Stevenson’s core beliefs. Stevenson is...

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Jan 21

Melanie Campbell: Making Sure Black Women Aren’t Invisible

On Christmas Eve in 1951, the Ku Klux Klan in Mims, Florida took a torch to the home of NAACP activists Harry and Harriette Moore. The...

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Jan 21

Emmanuel Acho: Uncomfortable Conversations with a Black Man

Emmanuel Acho’s parents emigrated from Nigeria and raised their four children in Dallas, Texas. From a young age, they instilled in him a...

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Jan 21

Dr. Kizzmekia S. Corbett: Developer of the prototype for the Moderna Covid-19 Vaccine

At the ripe old age of thirty-four, Dr. Kizzmekia S. Corbett used her skills as a viral immunologist to alter the course of a world-wide...

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Jan 21

Amanda Gorman: Youth Poet Laureate and Activist

At the age of twenty-four, Amanda Gorman has the awareness and wisdom of a woman three times her age. Born in the Watts neighborhood of...

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Jan 21

Marva Collins: Revolutionary Teacher of the “Unteachable”

Marva Collins became a teacher out of necessity. Growing up in segregated Alabama in the wake of the Depression, she attended a one-room...

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Jan 21

Steve Henson: Creator of Hidden Valley Ranch Dressing

In 1949, thirty-one year old Steve Henson and his wife, Gayle, decided to leave their home in Nebraska and head off for the unknown in...

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Jan 21

Joyce Ardell Jackson and Brad Lomax: Disability Rights Activists

The 1950s and 1960s saw hard earned gains in civil rights legislation. Despite enormous opposition from Deep South states, civil rights...

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Jan 15

Katherine Johnson, Dorothy Vaughan and Mary Jackson: NASA’s Hidden Figures

Many of the women profiled so far faced both racism and the added burden of sexism. Given the opportunity, women proved they could be...

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Jan 15

Edward W. Brooke, III: First Black U.S. Senator

Edward W. Brooke was born in 1919 to a middle-class family in Washington, D.C. His father was a lawyer, so the family’s income and...

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Jan 15

Lucille and Ruby Bridges: First Black Child to Integrate a White Elementary School

When The U.S. Supreme Court struck down school segregation in Brown v. Board of Education (1954), the impact was initially both...

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Jan 15

The Deacons for Defense and Justice: Armed Protectors of Civil Rights

If you grew up Black in the South during the Jim Crow era, it was virtually guaranteed that in addition to experiencing discrimination...

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Jan 15

Georgia Gilmore: Food Activist Who Fed the Montgomery Boycotters

In 1955, a thirty-six year old single mother of six boarded a public bus in Montgomery, Alabama. After she dropped her coins into the...

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Jan 15

Fannie Lou Hamer: The woman who was sick and tired of being sick and tired.

Fannie Lou Hamer was the youngest of twenty children, born to Mississippi sharecroppers in 1917. Even though Polio left her with a limp,...

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Jan 15

Bayard Rustin: Master Organizer for Civil Rights, Gay Rights and Human Rights

An entire year could be spent profiling the hundreds of civil rights leaders who worked tirelessly for abolition, desegregation, and...

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Jan 15

Charles Hamilton Houston: The Man Who Killed Jim Crow

As a child born to a middle-class family in 1895, Charles Hamilton Houston already had advantages that most Black children could only...

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Jan 15

Dorothy Dandridge: First Black Woman Nominated for Best Actress Academy Award

We’d love to have a full month profiling courageous people who broke down barriers and succeeded against all odds. But what makes stories...

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Jan 15

John Oliver Killens:Founding Member of the Harlem Writer’s Guild

If you’ve ever used the phrase “Kicking ass and taking names,” you have John Oliver Killens to thank for putting your feelings into...

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Jan 15

Dr. Charles Drew: Creator of the Life Saving Blood Bank

When Charles Drew was born in Washington, D.C. in 1904, school attendance wasn’t required. It wouldn’t become compulsory for another...

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Jan 15

Annie Turnbo Malone and Madam CJ Walker: Self-Made Millionaires

In 1896, the Supreme Court’s Plessy vs. Ferguson decision upheld Jim Crow laws, creating the “separate but equal” doctrine that would be...

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