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SUMMARY:Houston Racial Reconciliation Workshop ONLINE
DESCRIPTION:Kingdom Story Fellowship \n  \nin partnership with Memorial Drive Presbyterian Church \n  \nInvites you to participate in \n  \nThe Houston Racial Reconciliation Workshop ONLINE \n  \nFacilitated by John WilliamsThe Fellowship Center for Racial Reconciliation in California. Click here to view a 3 minute promo video.https://vimeo.com/202110626 \n  \nIn such a time as this we believe sharing the gospel of racial reconciliation is so needed. \nBring your team\, bring your friends. Begin the conversation and engage with one another.  Every voice belongs at this table. \nLet us do the work of becoming the people we were created to be. \n  \nDetails \nThis is a two week INTERACTIVE WORKSHOP\, composed of four sessions: Tuesday & Thursday\, 7-9PM(CST) – October 13 & 15 and October 20 & 22 \nDuring the course participants will be introduced to the deceptive and destructive effects of racism in our communities\, in our lives and in the body of Christ. \nExpect to dig deep as we look through the lens of history\, as well as the events we are experiencing today\, to understand how race remains a salient factor in shaping our society. \nThroughout the course\, we will actively build relationships as we participate and engage one another through conversation\, experiences\, and learning in a Gospel centered environment. \nFinally\, after we listen\, learn and share\, we will emerge with a sense of what it means to take the next steps in becoming active participants in dismantling racialized systems of disparity in order to become reconciled. \nTo fully engage this work\, it is strongly recommended that participants commit to all four sessions of the workshop. \n  \nREGISTRATION FEE INCLUDES: \n\nAccess to all four sessions\nSmall group virtual “table” discussions facilitated by experienced volunteers\nHard copy workbooks and “table” elements (Available for in person pick-up)\n \n\nRegistration is on a sliding scale. For scholarship info\, email Rebecca here. \nFor more information\, contact Rebecca Harrison\,832-537-5299 – rebecca@akingdomstory.com
URL:https://hpjc.org/event/houston-racial-reconciliation-workshop-online/
LOCATION:by zoom–link on website\, Houston\, 77008
CATEGORIES:Training
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SUMMARY:Building Black and Asian Solidarity: Women Leading Across Race\, History\, and Culture
DESCRIPTION:Schedule\nThursday\, October 8\, 20206:30 p.m. Moderated Discussion7:10 p.m. Audience Q&A — Questions welcome via VimeoFor more information or to register go to https://asiasociety.org/texas/events/webcast-bank-america-womens-leadership-series-0 \n  \nThe Black Lives Matter movement that erupted following the death of George Floyd has forced our nation to confront systemic racial biases and to effect immediate change. People from all races\, religions\, and genders have been inspired to come together in solidarity and in support of Black lives. The U.S. also has a complicated history of anti-Asian discrimination which includes the Chinese Exclusion Act in 1882\, the U.S.’s first federal law suspending immigration of an entire ethnic group\, and the Japanese Internment Act of 1942\, which led to the internment of thousands of Japanese residents and Japanese American citizens during World War II. \nThe dynamic of Asian and Black American communities in history is often overlooked. The Asian American movement and many of its grassroots organizations were inspired by the Black liberation movement. Often\, Asian American women were at the forefront of building coalitions for civil rights across racial lines. Prominent examples are Yuri Kochiyama\, who famously allied herself with the Civil Rights Movement and became a friend to Malcolm X\, and Ina Sugihara\, a civil rights organizer who became a founding member of the Congress of Racial Equity (CORE) and created multiracial coalitions through the Japanese American Citizens League. Sugihara emphasized the importance of multiracial alliances to fight discrimination\, and has been quoted as saying “The fate of each minority depends upon the extent of justice given all other groups.” \nDuring the current challenging times\, solidarity\, support\, and strength between all communities are imperative to move the nation forward in the right direction. Join Asia Society as inspirational women leaders explore the depth of Black and Asian American experiences in the country\, discuss how to overcome racial conflict and division between communities\, and share their hopes for cross-racial understanding and collaboration as we build a just and equitable future together. \n  \nRuth J. Simmons serves as President of Prairie View A&M University. She was President of Brown University from 2001-2012. Under her leadership\, Brown made significant strides in improving its standing as one of the world’s finest research universities. \nA French professor before entering university administration\, President Simmons held an appointment as a Professor of Comparative Literature and Africana Studies at Brown. After completing her Ph.D. in Romance Languages and Literatures at Harvard\, she served in various faculty and administrative roles at the University of Southern California\, Princeton University\, and Spelman College before becoming president of Smith College\, the largest women’s college in the United States. At Smith\, she launched a number of important academic initiatives\, including an engineering program\, the first at an American women’s college. \nSimmons is the recipient of many honors\, including a Fulbright Fellowship to France\, the 2001 President’s Award from the United Negro College Fund\, the 2002 Fulbright Lifetime Achievement Medal\, the 2004 Eleanor Roosevelt Val-Kill Medal\, the Foreign Policy Association Medal\, the Ellis Island Medal of Honor\, and the Centennial Medal from Harvard University. Simmons is a member of the National Academy of Arts and Sciences\, the American Philosophical Society\, and the Council on Foreign Relations\, and serves on the boards of the Houston Museum of Fine Arts\, the Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture\, and the Holdsworth Center. She also serves on the Board of Directors of Square. Awarded numerous honorary degrees\, she received the Brown Faculty’s highest honor: the Susan Colver Rosenberger Medal in 2011. In 2012\, she was named a ‘chevalier’ of the French Legion of Honor. \nHelen Zia is an activist\, author\, and former journalist. After twelve years in the making\, Last Boat out of Shanghai: The Epic Story of the Chinese Who Fled Mao’s Revolution is out! Helen’s latest book traces the lives of migrants and refugees from another cataclysmic time in history that has striking parallels to the difficulties facing migrants today. She interviewed more than 100 survivors of that exodus and countless others. Helen’s essay in the New York Times reveals her mother’s secret that inspired her to write this book. \nIn 2000\, her first book was published: Asian American Dreams: The Emergence of an American People\, a finalist for the prestigious Kiriyama Pacific Rim Book Prize. She also authored the story of Wen Ho Lee in My Country Versus Me\, about the Los Alamos scientist who was falsely accused of being a spy for China in the “worst case since the Rosenbergs.” She was Executive Editor of Ms. Magazine and a founding board co-chair of the Women’s Media Center. She has been active in many non-profit organizations\, including Equality Now\, AAJA\, and KQED. Her ground-breaking articles\, essays\, and reviews have appeared in many publications\, books\, and anthologies\, receiving numerous awards. \nThe daughter of immigrants from China\, Helen has been outspoken on issues ranging from human rights and peace to women’s rights and countering hate violence and homophobia. She is featured in the Academy Award-nominated documentary\, Who Killed Vincent Chin? and was profiled in Bill Moyers’ PBS series\, Becoming American: The Chinese Experience. In 2008 Helen was a Torchbearer in San Francisco for the Beijing Olympics amid great controversy; in 2010\, she was a witness in the federal marriage equality case decided by the US Supreme Court. \nHelen received an honorary Doctor of Humane Letters from the University of San Francisco and an honorary Doctor of Laws from the City University of New York Law School for bringing important matters of law and civil rights into public view. She is a Fulbright Scholar and a graduate of Princeton University’s first coeducational class. She attended medical school but quit after completing two years\, then went to work as a construction laborer\, an autoworker\, and a community organizer\, after which she discovered her life’s work as a writer. \nJuju Chang is an Emmy Award-winning co-anchor of ABC News’ Nightline. She also reports regularly for Good Morning America and 20/20. \nChang has been recognized for her in-depth personal narratives set against the backdrop of pressing national and international news. Her exclusive television interview with transgender solider Chelsea Manning\, after seven years in prison\, explored issues of national security leaks and LGBTQ military service. Her profile of former firefighter Pat Hardison – after a groundbreaking face transplant – highlighted the crisis of organ donation. She also interviewed transgender teen Jazz Jennings and her journey towards getting gender confirmation surgery and advocacy for other young transgender people. Additionally\, Chang anchored a special edition of Nightline\, “Consent on Campus\,” from Penn State which tackled complex issues surrounding sexual assault. \nChang has also covered major breaking news for decades for ABC News\, including Superstorm Sandy\, the Orlando nightclub massacre and the Boston Marathon bombing. She has traveled around the world to report on global issues including a three-country trip through Central Africa on the front lines against Boko Haram in the latest on #bringbackourgirls\, and to Honduras for “Femicide: the Untold War\,” an eye-opening look at rampant violence against women. \nChang has profiled newsmakers like Facebook COO Sheryl Sandberg\, former Vice President Joe Biden and Oprah Winfrey as well as entertainers like Chris Pratt\, Channing Tatum\, Nicki Minaj\, and Bella Thorne. Her extensive feature reporting covers parenting dilemmas\, digital addictions and social media moguls like Dude Perfect and Esther the Wonder Pig. \nA former news anchor for Good Morning America\, Chang joined ABC News as an entry level desk assistant in 1987 and rose to become a producer for World News Tonight. Her first on-air job was reporting for KGO-TV in San Francisco. After a year in Washington\, D.C. covering the White House\, Capitol Hill and the presidential election for NewsOne\, she co-anchored the overnight show World News Now. Chang’s work has been recognized with numerous awards including multiple Emmy’s\, Gracie’s\, a DuPont\, a Murrow and Peabody awards.  In 2017\, she was honored with the Lifetime Achievement Award at the Front Page Awards. \nBorn in Seoul\, South Korea and raised in Northern California\, Chang graduated with honors from Stanford University with a B.A. in political science and communication. She is married to WNET President and CEO Neal Shapiro and together they have three sons. Chang is a member of the Council on Foreign Relations and a founding board member of the Korean American Community Foundation. \n 
URL:https://hpjc.org/event/building-black-and-asian-solidarity-women-leading-across-race-history-and-culture/
LOCATION:by zoom–link on website\, Houston\, 77008
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SUMMARY:NETWORKS’s Nuns on the Bus: The Virtual Tour
DESCRIPTION:NETWORK’s Nuns of the Bus is coming to Houston (Virtually)!For more info or to register go to: https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZ0odeipqTgtG93vaVAXDTGLL79FZzPCpVAc \n  \nJoin Sr. Simone Campbell and the Nuns on the Bus for a Town Hall for Spirit-Filled Voters. While this town hall is virtual\, it is intended especially for those who live in the Houston-Metropolitan Area. Spirit-Filled Voters are voters who are committed to mending the gaps in our nation and are able to talk to their friends and family about the need to promote the common good this election. This town hall is for those who are committed to being Spirit-Filled Voters this election season\, and beyond! \n  \nDuring the town hall\, Sr. Simone and the Nuns on the Bus will talk about the great urgency of this election and why it’s important for Catholics and other people of faith to be spirit-filled\, multi-issue voters. Then\, using Zoom break-out rooms\, participants will go into small groups with the Nuns on the Bus to practice talking about why they are a Spirit-Filled Voter. At the end of the event\, Sr. Simone will commission participants to go forth and talk to their family and friends about mending the gaps in our nation this election season. The Town Hall for Spirit-Filled Voters is 90 minutes long and is highly interactive. Participants are encouraged to have their video turned “on” as much as possible and be willing to engage in the small and large group discussions. \n  \nWe have a very full program planned\, so we will be starting right at 6 PM! Please try to arrive on time (or even a little bit early)! Thank you!
URL:https://hpjc.org/event/networkss-nuns-on-the-bus-the-virtual-tour/
LOCATION:by zoom–link on website\, Houston\, 77008
CATEGORIES:Town Hall Meeting
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SUMMARY:Is This Really A Racial Reckoning?
DESCRIPTION:Thursday\, October 1\, 20206:00 PM \nVimeo LivestreamFrances Tarlton “Sissy” Farenthold Endowed Lecture Series in Peace\, Social Justice and Human RightsIs this really a racial reckoning? with Charles M. BlowPresented in partnership with the Rapoport Center for Human Rights and Justice at UT’s School of LawClick “Register” below to receive link to view. Registration closes at event start time. \n  \nAfter the killing of George Floyd\, millions of people\, of all races and ethnicities\, in America and around the world\, poured into the streets as part of historic protests to demand racial justice. Some began to call those protests a major civil rights moment\, a long-overdue\, honest dealing with racial justice and equality. But\, as months have passed\, as progress has stalled and protests narrow\, we are forced to wrestle with the question: Is this really a racial reckoning?  \nJoin the Rothko Chapel and the Bernard and Audre Rapoport Center for Human Rights and Justice at the University of Texas at Austin for the 6th annual Frances Tarlton “Sissy” Farenthold Endowed Lecture in Peace\, Social Justice and Human Rights. \nThe 2020 Farenthold Lecture will kick-off a series of Rothko Chapel programs exploring the past\, present\, and future of civil and human rights in this country. Which rights are particularly at-risk in today’s society\, and how can we become more effective advocates and activists as we work to undo injustice and create a society of equality and equity? A moderated Q&A session by ABC13’s news anchor Melanie Lawson follows the lecture. \n  \nAbout Charles M. BlowCharles M. Blow is an Op-Ed columnist at The New York Times\, where his column appears on Mondays and Thursdays. Mr. Blow’s columns tackle hot-button issues such as social justice\, racial equality\, presidential politics\, police violence\, gun control\, and the Black Lives Matter Movement. Mr. Blow is also a CNN commentator and was a Presidential Visiting Professor at Yale\, where he taught a seminar on media and politics. He is the author of the critically acclaimed New York Times best-selling memoir\, Fire Shut Up in My Bones. The book won a Lambda Literary Award and the Sperber Prize and made multiple prominent lists of best books published in 2014. People Magazine called it “searing and unforgettable.” \nMr. Blow joined The New York Times in 1994 as a graphics editor and quickly became the paper’s graphics director\, a position he held for nine years. He then went on to become the paper’s design director for news before leaving in 2006 to become the art director of National Geographic Magazine. Before coming to The Times\, Mr. Blow had worked at The Detroit News. He graduated magna cum laude from Grambling State University in Louisiana\, where he received a B.A. in mass communications\, and he holds an honorary doctorate from Massachusetts College of Art and Design in Boston. He lives in Brooklyn and has three children. \n  \nFor more info visit http://rothkochapel.org/experience/events/register/1861
URL:https://hpjc.org/event/is-this-really-a-racial-reckoning/
LOCATION:by zoom–link on website\, Houston\, 77008
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SUMMARY:Heading for Extinction and What to Do About It
DESCRIPTION:“Heading for Extinction–and what to do about it” is the classic Extinction Rebellion presentation known as “the talk”\, given with a Houston twist. Please join us to learn the scope and scale of our current predicament\, why current approaches are flawed\, and how you can make a difference.
URL:https://hpjc.org/event/heading-for-extinction-and-what-to-do-about-it-2/
LOCATION:by zoom–link on website\, Houston\, 77008
CATEGORIES:Environmental & Environmental Justice,Presentation or Lecture
ORGANIZER;CN="Brent Sullivan":MAILTO:brent.sullivan@gmail.com
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