Earthseed Black Family Archive Project & Blackroots Alliance presents Reparations: Past, Present and Future Models of Healing and Liberation. Join us Saturday February 25 from 1-3pmCT as we speak with thought leaders, cultural workers and activists about the movements for reparations for black folks living in America - specifically in the Chicagoland area. Blackroots Alliance […]
"The Big Payback" Private Movie Screening co-hosted by N'COBRA Chicago Chapter and the Conrad Worrill Community Reparations Commission Come out and enjoy an evening at the Chatham Emagine Theater on National Reparation Awareness Day, February 25, 2022, at 5:00pm as the Conrad Worrill Community Reparations Commission and N'COBRA Chicago Co-host a private screening of "The […]
United Church of Christ & National Council of Churches Zoom Dialogue
Join Independent Lens, Texas PBS, Houston Public Media, KERA, and Black Public Media for a virtual Texas Town Hall Debate on the future of reparations in America, inspired by the new PBS film The Big Payback. Filmmakers Erika Alexander and Whitney Dow, along with film participant Robin Rue, Texas-based change-makers, and Historically Black College and […]
NC 10 Schools
CLICK HERE TO REGISTER FOR ZOOM DR. OBARI CARTMAN'S BIO Dr. Cartman is a father, son, brother, uncle, thinker, writer, therapist, photographer, drummer, and grassroots mental health advocate. He is a Chicago native, where his cultural and educational foundations were cultivated by several African-centered institutions. He received his undergraduate degree from Hampton University and a […]
The Black Policy Conference was born in 2005 out of the desire to facilitate an open exchange of ideas for the most current issues affecting Black communities globally. As we look back to those who led policy shifts throughout the Black diaspora and within Africa we learn from their triumphs as well as their challenges. […]
This year marks the 50th anniversary of hip hop, the musical genre that debuted in the Bronx streets and fought its way into the mainstream – and a billion-dollar Grammy-heavy business – through two generations of poets, artists, and activists. From Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five’s “The Message” and Public Enemy’s “Fight the Power'' […]
CLICK HERE TO REGISTER FOR ZOOM JUSTIN HANSFORD, J.D.'S BIO Director of the Thurgood Marshall Civil Rights Center, J.D., Georgetown University Hansford will “put his passion and knowledge to work to empower marginalized communities.” Justin Hansford is a Howard University School of Law Professor of Law and Executive Director of the Thurgood Marshall Civil Rights […]