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Yale Graduates go Grassroots to Resurrect Liberal Arts Education
This summer, a group of Yale graduates will launch a series of workshops focusing on film production and cultural arts in Bedford Stuyvesant, Brooklyn New York. The workshop series is a project of The Collaborative for Film in Social and Cultural Studies. The workshops will target teens and social studies teachers with the objective being to enliven the tenets of liberal arts in young people and provide training and curriculum development for social studies teachers.
Harlem Consumer Education Council - Protects Seniors from Eviction
"They say I am a legend," says Florence M. Rice. After more than 45 years of dedicated consumer rights activism for African-Americans and the underserved, all who know Ms. Rice would say that “they” are exactly right. On her 90th birthday, in tribute to her tireless and highly effectual consumer rights activism, Ms. Rice was anointed “Dr.” by colleague Marjorie Moore and a standing- room only crowd; this occurred after she told of her life long intention…to be of service to people.
Continue...Restaurant as Classroom… An Answer to the Troubles of Inner City Youth
You won’t find sagging pants, ample cleavage, or the impatient wait staff serving up the delicious delights at this restaurant. Food for life Supreme is cropping up in urban cities all across our country. Although it looks and functions like a restaurant -- boasting a choice menu of breads brought in from its bakery, exotic herbal tea concoctions, sparkling ginger beers, Cuban salmon burgers, marinated mixed greens and vegetable salads -- it is, essentially, a crusade.
Why A Covenant and Why Now?
The Covenant with Black America is a national plan of action to address the primary concerns of African Americans today -- from health to housing, from crime to criminal justice, from education to economic parity.
Continue...Accountable Making America As Good As Its Promise
ACCOUNTABLE Making America As Good As Its Promise, Book III in the celebrated New York Times bestselling The Covenant series. How can we create an America as good as its promise? Bestselling author and award-winning broadcaster, Tavis Smiley, challenges us to set a new standard for those who lead and those who follow—in Accountable.
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Arts, Culture, and Social Change
PolicyLink and the William C. Velasquez Institute recently hosted the National Black Latino Summit in Los Angeles, where hundreds of people came together to discuss issues such as education and criminal justice, and facilitate cross-cultural dialogue that explores the barriers and solutions to building alliances and achieving fairness and justice.
The panel - Arts, Culture, and Social Change - moderated by Tavis Smiley, brought together some of our nation's leading Black and Latino artists to discuss the role culture plays in building ties between the two groups in order to advance social progress in America. This panel was broadcast as part of Smiley’s My America 2008.
We've been reaching out to community leaders who, through their organizations, are making a difference in this world.
- Churches Supporting Churches, New Orleans (Economic Prosperity)
- Puentes New Orleans (Environmental Justice)
