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SUMMARY:Black Wall Street Youth Series: Demystifying the Stock Market - Virtual Event
DESCRIPTION:Join us for the final event of the Black Wall Street and Beyond Series in partnership with Kaiser Permanente. Jerry Britton and Joe Emerusabe will provide youths with information about various investment topics to enhance their understanding of the stock market.\n\nGrades: Suitable for MS/HS audiences. Youth Program only. Educators and homeschoolers can contact terry.taylor@lewismuseum.org for more details.\n\nTo register CLICK HERE.
URL:https://archive.lewismuseum.org/event/black-wall-street-youth-series-demystifying-the-stock-market-virtual-event/
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SUMMARY:The Other Madison\, The Lost History of a President's Black Family- Virtual Event
DESCRIPTION:This program begins at 7 pm EST. \n11/18/21 – If you have not already register to this event\, please register directly onto  the GoToWebinar link: \nhttps://attendee.gotowebinar.com/register/171232862293913104 \nAfter registering\, you will receive a confirmation email containing information about joining the webinar. \nCelebrate Maryland Emancipation (November 1\, 1864) this month with a book talk with author Bettye Kearse discussing her family connection to U. S. President James Madison.  \nFor thousands of years\, West African griots (men) and griottes (women) have recited the stories of their people. Without this tradition Bettye Kearse would not have known that she is a descendant of President James Madison and his slave\, and half-sister\, Coreen. In 1990\, Bettye became the eighth-generation griotte for her family. Their credo—“Always remember—you’re a Madison. You come from African slaves and a president”—was intended to be a source of pride\, but for her\, it echoed with abuses of slavery\, including rape and incest.  Confronting those abuses\, Bettye embarked on a journey of discovery—of her ancestors\, the nation\, and herself. She learned that wherever African slaves walked\, recorded history silenced their voices and buried their footsteps: beside a slave-holding fortress in Ghana; below a federal building in New York City; and under a brick walkway at James Madison’s Virginia plantation. When Bettye tried to confirm the information her ancestors had passed down\, she encountered obstacles at every turn. Part personal quest\, part testimony\, part historical correction\, The Other Madisons is the saga of an extraordinary American family told by a griotte in search of the whole story \nThe short film\, The Other Madison will be screened before the book talk moderated by ICE Director\, Dr. Izetta Autumn Mobley. \nBettye Kearse is a writer and retired pediatrician. Her writing has appeared in the Boston Herald\, TIME Magazine\, River Teeth\, Zora\, and the anthology Black Lives Have Always Mattered\, among other places. The Other Madisons received the International Afro-American Historical and Genealogical Book Award for Nonfiction\, Autobiography. Her research for The Other Madisons was covered in the Washington Post. She lives in New Mexico. \nTo register\, CLICK HERE. Free event. \nIn conjunction with Bodies of Information: Understanding Slavery through the Stearns Collection.
URL:https://archive.lewismuseum.org/event/the-other-madison-the-lost-history-of-a-presidents-black-family-virtual-event/
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SUMMARY:Commentary from RFLM Executive Director Terri L. Freeman - Truth Tellers and Culture Keepers: Champions for Justice
DESCRIPTION:Truth Tellers and Culture Keepers: Champions for Justice\nOn Friday\, November 19\, 2021\, Kyle Rittenhouse was acquitted of killing two\, and shooting another protester in Kenosha\, Wisconsin. The Rittenhouse verdict has been delivered mere weeks before the verdict in the Ahmaud Arbery case which many of us are also awaiting. At times like these I’m reminded of James Baldwin’s observation that\, “To be a Negro in this country and to be relatively conscious is to be in a state of rage almost\, almost all of the time – and in one’s work.” But how does that translate when our work is grounded in the history\, art\, and culture of people of African descent? What is the work of history and cultural keepers at a moment like this? \nMuseums serve as a record of the past\, we are truth tellers and narrators of a cultural story that\, not captured\, simply disappears from our collective memory. Our role serves as a form of justice. Accurately interpreting\, preserving\, and educating about history and culture is a form of justice\, one that takes fortitude and focus because our work is foundational to the principles that help strengthen many folks who are committed to racial equity\, and especially for people of African descent in this country. As we witness and hear the influx of commentary – much of it inaccurately portraying the history of race in this country\, or invoking critical race theory (often improperly)\, or negotiating yet again the realities of Black life in this country – I hope we each find windows to healthily process and reflect. \nAlice Walker tells us “there is wealth in anger\,” so if we are deeply wounded and angry about history’s cruel repetitions\, we might be guided by Baldwin and Walker to put that anger into the passion for our work\, into sharpening our clarity around why and how our work as history and culture keepers matters\, and in renewing and fortifying our commitment that Black history\, Black culture\, Black expression\, Black art\, Black joy\, Black safety\, Black life\, and Black people matter; every single day. That\,ultimately\, racial equity matters for all people. Our work matters because at moments like this\, when we see white supremacy at work yet again in the judicial system – and when we are on tinder hooks awaiting a verdict in a case in which a literal law borne out of the 1850 Fugitive Slave Act is being used to justify the killing of a Black man jogging – our work serves to remind people of the roads we have traveled before and have survived. But not only does our work remind people of African descent of the constant work that we have done to make this country “a more perfect union\,” but our history and culture serves as a model to all people in the country. Our work pushes back against the “great temptation to simplify the issues.” We help people understand how this complex nuanced thing called race in America is not and has never been simple. We provide nuance. We provide models. We provide context. We provide history that offers roadmaps as we find ourselves in the midst of a third wave of the Civil Rights Movement (a movement that never truly ended). \nThis is why the work of Reginald F. Lewis Museum provide is so important.  This is why we work with the Baltimore Police Department;’s cadet corp to increase understanding that is based not simply on feelings\, but on facts.  This is why we seek to train teachers on how they teach difficult history\, to provide them with the support and resources to transfer knowledge to the next generation.  This is why we host dialogues\, debates and present thought leaders to introduce topics that often go unmentioned\, or worse are discussed inaccurately like critical race theory. This is why the musuem’s historical memory is necessary to be both preserved and expanded. \nPoet and scholar Audre Lorde was quick to remind us that “care of the self was not self-indulgence\,” but rather an act of self-preservation. In the face of messages without care and seeming disregard for racial equity and Black life\, may we who think and work as history and cultural keepers do what we need to care for ourselves and our diverse galaxies (family\, friends\, communities) as an act of self-preservation.
URL:https://archive.lewismuseum.org/event/commentary-from-rflm-executive-director-terri-l-freeman-truth-tellers-and-culture-keepers-champions-for-justice/
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