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SUMMARY:Remembering Our Future: Relying on Each Other to Restore Hope & Healing
DESCRIPTION:The Baton Foundation\, in partnership with the Auburn Avenue Research Library on African American Culture and History\, is honored to host a lecture on hope and healing by Dr. Joyce E. King. This program is free\, but registration is required. \nAbout the Program\nSankofa (the Adinkra symbol pictured above) teaches us that it is not “taboo to go back and fetch what is at risk of being left behind.” We remember our Ancestors to deepen our sense of identity\, to seek to know\, to clarify\, to remember\, to understand the ways our fathers and mothers carried on the struggle for integrity and freedom in their time. Relying on each other we can restore hope and healing for our children and for future generations. \nAbout the Speaker\nJoyce E. King is the Benjamin E. Mays Endowed Chair for Urban Teaching\, Learning and Leadership and Professor of Educational Policy Studies in the College of Education & Human Development at Georgia State University. \nWidely respected in the fields of urban education and the sociology of education\, King’s research has contributed to the knowledge base on preparing teachers for diversity and curriculum theorizing through her scholarship\, teaching practice and leadership. She served on the Curriculum Commission of the State Board of Education. \nKing has lectured in educational and community organizations in the United States\, Brazil\, Canada\, England\, Mali\, Senegal\, Japan\, Jamaica and New Zealand. She has shared her expertise in diversity transformation as a training consultant with civic and human rights organizations and higher education institutions in the U.S. and abroad. She has served as President of the Board of Directors of Food First (Institute for Food and Development Policy\, Oakland\, California). \nA dynamic leader and visionary teacher/scholar\, King has a wealth of academic\, administrative and leadership experience in public\, private and non-profit settings\, including historical Black and predominately white colleges and universities. She has created numerous opportunities for emergent leaders of diverse backgrounds to progress in their careers. Her accomplishments reflect an emphasis on innovative interdisciplinary scholarship\, culturally connected teaching and learning and inclusive transformative leadership for change often in creative partnership with communities. \nKing’s recent publications include the Harvard Educational Review\, The Handbook of Research on Black Education\, The Handbook of Research on Teacher Education and Voices of Historical and Contemporary Black Pioneers. In addition\, King organized and edited a landmark book\, Black Education: A Transformative Research and Action Agenda for the New Century that was published for the American Educational Research Association (2005). \nDr. King served as the 2015 president of the American Educational Research Association. In 2018 she received the Stanford Graduate School of Education Alumni Excellence in Education Award. \nRegister for the Zoom Lecture Here
URL:https://thebatonfoundation.org/event/remembering-our-future-relying-on-each-other-to-restore-hope-healing/
CATEGORIES:Virtual Lecture
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SUMMARY:White Too Long: The Legacy of White Supremacy in American Christianity
DESCRIPTION:The Baton Foundation\, in partnership with the Auburn Avenue Research Library on African American Culture and History\, is excited to offer a discussion and Q & A with Dr. Robert Jones about his book\, White Too Long. This program is free\, but registration is required. \nAbout the Book\nDrawing on history\, public opinion surveys\, and personal experience\, Robert P. Jones delivers a provocative examination of the unholy relationship between American Christianity and white supremacy\, and issues an urgent call for white Christians to reckon with this legacy for the sake of themselves and the nation. \nAs the nation grapples with demographic changes and the legacy of racism in America\, Christianity’s role as a cornerstone of white supremacy has been largely overlooked. But white Christians—from evangelicals in the South to mainline Protestants in the Midwest and Catholics in the Northeast—have not just been complacent or complicit; rather\, as the dominant cultural power\, they have constructed and sustained a project of protecting white supremacy and opposing Black equality that has framed the entire American story. \nWith his family’s 1815 Bible in one hand and contemporary public opinion surveys by Public Religion Research Institute (PRRI) in the other\, Robert P. Jones delivers a groundbreaking analysis of the repressed history of the symbiotic relationship between Christianity and white supremacy. White Too Long demonstrates how deeply racist attitudes have become embedded in the DNA of white Christian identity over time and calls for an honest reckoning with a complicated\, painful\, and even shameful past. \nDrawing on lessons gleaned from case studies of communities beginning to face these challenges\, Jones argues that contemporary white Christians must confront these unsettling truths because this is the only way to salvage the integrity of their faith and their own identities. More broadly\, it is no exaggeration to say that not just the future of white Christianity but the outcome of the American experiment is at stake. Purchase books here. \nAbout the Author\nRobert P. Jones is the CEO and founder of Public Religion Research Institute (PRRI) and the author of White Too Long: The Legacy of White Supremacy in American Christianity. Jones writes regularly on politics\, culture\, and religion for The Atlantic online\, NBC Think\, and other outlets. He is frequently featured in major national media\, such as CNN\, MSNBC\, NPR\, The New York Times\, The Washington Post\, and others. He holds a Ph.D. in religion from Emory University and a M.Div. from Southwestern Baptist Theological Seminary. He is the author of The End of White Christian America\, which won the 2019 Grawemeyer Award in Religion. \nRegister for the Zoom Lecture Here
URL:https://thebatonfoundation.org/event/white-too-long-the-legacy-of-white-supremacy-in-american-christianity/
CATEGORIES:Virtual Lecture
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SUMMARY:Contagions of Empire: A Conversation With Professor Khary Polk
DESCRIPTION:The Baton Foundation is excited to host an author discussion with Professor Khary Polk about his recently published book\, Contagions of Empire. This program is free\, but registration is required. \nAbout the Book\nContagions of Empire: Scientific Racism\, Sexuality\, and Black Military Workers Abroad\, 1898-1948 (University of North Carolina Press\, June 2020) examines how the movement of Black soldiers and nurses around the world in the early-to-mid twentieth century challenged U.S. military ideals of race\, nation\, and honor. \nFrom 1898 onward\, the expansion of United States militarism and empire abroad increasingly relied on Black labor\, even as policy remained infected both by scientific racism and by fears of contagion. Black men and women were mobilized for service in the Spanish-Cuban-American War (1898) under the War Department’s belief that southern Blacks carried an immunity against tropical diseases. \nLater\, in World Wars I and II\, Black troops were stigmatized as members of a contagious “venereal race” and were subjected to experimental medical treatments meant to curtail their sexual desires. By turns feared as contagious and at other times valued for their immunity\, Black men and women played an important part in the U.S. military’s conscription of racial\, gender\, and sexual difference\, even as they exercised their embattled agency at home and abroad. \nBy following the scientific\, medical\, and cultural history of Black enlistment through the archive of American militarism\, this book traces the Black subjects and agents of empire as they came into contact with a world globalized by warfare. \nAbout the Author\nKhary Oronde Polk is an Associate Professor of Black Studies & Sexuality\, Women’s and Gender Studies at Amherst College. He is a cultural historian of the African diaspora\, a specialist in LGBTQ studies\, and a scholar of race\, gender\, and sexuality in the U.S. military. Polk received his Ph.D. in American Studies from New York University\, and teaches courses on Black sexuality\, military history\, Black European studies\, race & the American imagination\, and queer theory. He has written for the Studio Museum of Harlem\, The Journal of Negro History\, Women’s Studies Quarterly\, Gawker\, and the journal Biography: An Interdisciplinary Quarterly. Polk has also contributed essays to a number of queer of color anthologies\, including If We Have To Take Tomorrow\, Corpus\, and Think Again. \nRegister for the Zoom Lecture Here
URL:https://thebatonfoundation.org/event/contagions-of-empire-a-conversation-with-professor-khary-polk/
CATEGORIES:Virtual Lecture
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SUMMARY:Homemade Citizenship: All But Inviting Injury
DESCRIPTION:The Baton Foundation is thrilled to host an author discussion about American citizenship vis-à-vis the Black experience in the United States. This program is free\, but registration is required. \nProgram Narrative\nEven when they embody everything the nation claims to respect\, Black people cannot count on being treated like citizens. Simply consider the Black soldiers and nurses who served in the Civil War\, WWI\, and WWII only to be disfranchised and denigrated…or consider the Ivy League-educated constitutional lawyer who rose to the office of president only to face demands that he “show his papers\,” his birth certificate and academic transcripts. Though their success will not likely bring them the safety and respectability it should\, Black people seem to cling to all that purportedly makes one an ideal citizen\, including the heteronormative nuclear family and its traditional household. What does this pattern of investing against the odds reveal about Black culture in the United States? The short answer: homemade citizenship. \nAbout the Book\nIn From Slave Cabins to the White House (University of Illinois Press\, August 2020)\, Koritha Mitchell analyzes canonical texts by and about Black women to lay bare the hostility these women face as they invest in traditional domesticity. Instead of the respectability and safety granted White homemakers\, Black women endure pejorative labels\, racist governmental policies\, attacks on their citizenship\, and aggression meant to keep them in “their place.” \nTracing how Black people define and redefine success in a nation determined to deprive them of it\, Mitchell plumbs the works of Frances Harper\, Zora Neale Hurston\, Lorraine Hansberry\, Toni Morrison\, Michelle Obama\, and others. These artists honor Black homes from slavery and post-emancipation through the Modern Civil Rights era to “post-racial” America. Mitchell follows Black families asserting their citizenship in domestic settings while the larger society and culture marginalize and attack them\, not because they are deviants or failures but because they meet American standards. \nAbout the Author\nKoritha Mitchell is a literary historian\, cultural critic\, and associate professor of English at Ohio State University. She is author of Living with Lynching: African American Lynching Plays\, Performance\, and Citizenship\, which won book awards from the American Theatre and Drama Society and from the Society for the Study of American Women Writers.  Professor Mitchell is editor of the Broadview Edition of Frances Harper’s 1892 novel Iola Leroy\, and her articles include “James Baldwin\, Performance Theorist\, Sings the Blues for Mister Charlie\,” published by American Quarterly\, and “Love in Action\,” which appeared in Callaloo and draws parallels between lynching and violence against LGBTQ+ communities. Her second monograph\, From Slave Cabins to the White House: Homemade Citizenship in African American Culture\, was published in August 2020 by the University of Illinois Press. Her commentary has appeared in outlets such as CNN\, Good Morning America\, The Huffington Post\, NBC News\, PBS Newshour\, and NPR’s Morning Edition. On Twitter\, she’s @ProfKori. \nRegister for Zoom Lecture Here
URL:https://thebatonfoundation.org/event/homemade-citizenship-all-but-inviting-inquiry/
CATEGORIES:Virtual Lecture
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20200927T150000
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SUMMARY:Wakanda Forever: Remembering the Life and Work of Chadwick Boseman
DESCRIPTION:The Baton Foundation will host a community discussion to celebrate Chadwick Boseman’s life and extraordinary work. This program is free. Registration is required. \nAbout the Program\nThe world seemed to stop\, if only briefly\, when Chadwick Aaron Boseman died on August 28\, 2020. His short life was exceptional and steeped in history. Over the course of five years (2013-2018)\, Boseman played four characters central to the history of the United States and to the Black community\, in particular: Jackie Robinson\, James Brown\, Thurgood Marshall\, and T’Challa. Later this year\, the world will see Boseman in his final role as Levee\, a trumpeter in the film Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom—adapted from the August Wilson play of the same name. \nMany believe Boseman’s life was “touched by the ancestors” — that he was a messenger sent to remind us not only of the tragedies we have faced\, but also to put before us examples of the resilience within each individual and our community’s determination to never be deterred. \nDuring this program\, panelists will help us place Boseman’s work and life within the context of U.S. history and help us think about the role of film with regards to Black representation. Integral to this program will be the thoughts and voices of our community—those in attendance. \nAbout the Panelist\nYema Thomas is a blossoming art historian and visual/performing artist. In her current role as Coordinator of Public Programs at the High Museum of Art Atlanta\, she works to educate and develop programs to showcase the presence of dynamic cultural activities within her community. Before devoting her full-time work to the High Museum of Art\, Yema established a Diasporic dance program called AfroHeat with the City of Atlanta’s Office of Parks and Recreation which furthered her commitment to fostering arts and culture-based programming for the City’s youth\, seniors and adults. \nYema’s professional and personal affiliations speak to her determination to serve as a lifetime cultural liaison and to celebrate the interconnectedness of places and peoples throughout the African diaspora. Her current research explores connections in African diasporic music and movement with a focus on a distinctly relevant “circle of influence\,” beginning with African retentions in the United States and the Caribbean and how those cultural products (i.e. Jazz\, Salsa\, and Konpa) have been reintroduced to Africa\, contemporarily\, in the form of Kizomba and Afro-Zouk. \nYema is interested in explorations of Identity. She firmly believes that no matter how far an individual has travelled from “home\,” there will always be aspects of physical\, spiritual and intellectual ties to reconnect them to their ancestral roots. Yema was thrilled to work as an extra in the film Black Panther. \nKevin Sipp is a visual artist\, writer\, graphic novelist\, curator and arts administrator living in Metro Atlanta. The main focus of his expressive production is to create aesthetic altars to the transcendent consciousness of Africa and the African Diaspora past\, present\, and future. His art often makes references to African and world mythologies\, Afro-futurism\, cultural identity\, colonial history\, past and contemporary music forms\, and comic book culture. \nKevin has lectured at venues such as Brandeis University\, Emory University’s Michael C. Carlos Museum\, The High Museum of Art\, University of Cape Town South Africa\, various arts festivals and comic book conventions. As a featured poet\, he has shared the stage with such luminaries as Amiri Baraka\, Sonia Sanchez\, Saul Williams and the poets of the Nuyorican Poets Cafe. \nKevin Sipp currently works as the Project Supervisor for Gallery 72\, a municipal art space for the City of Atlanta Mayor’s Office of Cultural Affairs. Gallery 72 is dedicated to presenting stimulating and thought-provoking contemporary art and programs that focus on advancing Atlanta’s art offerings. Gallery 72 seeks to promote cutting-edge contemporary art\, while extending opportunities for artists and art organizations to explore creative expression and compelling idea. \nEric Bomba-Ire is a filmmaker/writer\, and co-founder of cinemATL.com an online platform for southeastern filmmakers. Originally from Ghana\, Eric has resided in Atlanta for the past 22 years. \nRegister for Zoom Discussion Here
URL:https://thebatonfoundation.org/event/wakanda-forever-remembering-the-life-and-work-of-chadwick-boseman/
CATEGORIES:Community Engagement
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20200920T150000
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SUMMARY:Hush No More!: A Documentary
DESCRIPTION:The Baton Foundation\, Inc.\, in collaboration with Hush No More! and Comfort in The Storm\, will host a film screening about domestic violence\, sexual assault and abuse\, and trauma in the Black community. This program is free\, but registration is required. \nThe Problem\nStudies show that every 98 seconds someone is sexually assaulted. 1 in 3 women and 1 in 10 men experience sexually harassment in the workplace. 1 in 4 women and 1 in 7 men have been victims of sexual violence by an intimate partner. 1 in 5 girls and 1 in 20 boys are victims of child sexual abuse and 3 out of 4 of those children were abused by someone they know. On average\, the National Trafficking Hotline receives approximately 150 calls per day. \nThese statistics clearly show what many of us know–there is a silent epidemic in our community that leaves our family and friends at risk of being a victim of the “hush” topics. \nAbout the Film\nHUSH NO More!: A Documentary (90 mins.) is a critically acclaimed film that explores the negative impacts of “hush” topics–domestic violence\, sexual assault\, sexual harassment\, child sexual abuse and sex trafficking. Filmmakers interviewed eight survivors and two experts to explore how individuals can survive trauma and prevent it from happening to others in our communities. Additionally\, the documentary examines the coping skills used to go from victim to survivor. \nAbout HUSH No More!\nHUSH No More! is a non-profit organization founded in 2019 to provide a platform for survivors to share their experience with “hush” topics–those topics that individuals\, families\, and organizations have a hard time discussing (i.e. sexual assault\, domestic violence\, child sexual abuse\, sex trafficking\, sexual harassment\, among others). The organization receives support from survivors and victim advocates and provides training that fosters awareness and prevention in the Black community. Our vision is to help create a world in which survivors feel empowered to be HUSH No More. We believe that by having survivors share their stories with others a knowledge base is created which leads to safer communities. Dr. Vanessa Guyton is the organization’s founder and executive director. \nAbout Comfort in the Storm\nComfort In The Storm is an Atlanta-based organization dedicated to helping end the epidemic of child sexual abuse. As credentialed advocates\, the organization provides child sex abuse prevention and awareness training to groups and organizations of all sizes. Staff also provide peer support to survivors of child sexual abuse and their families. Kathy and Richard Butler founded the organization. \nRegister for Zoom Screening and Discussion Here
URL:https://thebatonfoundation.org/event/hush-no-more-domestic-violence-sexual-abuse-and-trauma-in-the-black-community-2/
CATEGORIES:Virtual Film Screening
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20200913T150000
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SUMMARY:Hush No More!: Domestic Violence\, Sexual Abuse and Trauma in the Black Community
DESCRIPTION:The Baton Foundation\, Inc.\, in collaboration with Hush No More! and Comfort in The Storm\, will host a film screening and community conversation about domestic violence\, sexual assault and abuse\, and trauma in the Black community. This program is free\, but registration is required. \nThe Problem\nStudies show that every 98 seconds someone is sexually assaulted. 1 in 3 women and 1 in 10 men experience sexually harassment in the workplace. 1 in 4 women and 1 in 7 men have been victims of sexual violence by an intimate partner. 1 in 5 girls and 1 in 20 boys are victims of child sexual abuse and 3 out of 4 of those children were abused by someone they know. On average\, the National Trafficking Hotline receives approximately 150 calls per day. \nThese statistics clearly show what many of us know–there is a silent epidemic in our community that leaves our family and friends at risk of being a victim of the “hush” topics. \nAbout the Program\nUsing the documentary\, HUSH No More!\, as a catalyst\, facilitators will engage the audience in a community discussion that begins to address topics often too difficult to broach. This program will provide advocacy services and resources for those who might be in need\, personally\, or for a friend or loved one. Facilitators will also provide tips to prevent sexual assault and ways you can support a survivor. \nAbout the Film\nHUSH NO More!: A Documentary (90 mins.) is a critically acclaimed film that explores the negative impacts of “hush” topics–domestic violence\, sexual assault\, sexual harassment\, child sexual abuse and sex trafficking. Filmmakers interviewed eight survivors and two experts to explore how individuals can survive trauma and prevent it from happening to others in our communities. Additionally\, the documentary examines the coping skills used to go from victim to survivor. \nAbout HUSH No More!\nHUSH No More! is a non-profit organization founded in 2019 to provide a platform for survivors to share their experience with “hush” topics–those topics that individuals\, families\, and organizations have a hard time discussing (i.e. sexual assault\, domestic violence\, child sexual abuse\, sex trafficking\, sexual harassment\, among others). The organization receives support from survivors and victim advocates and provides training that fosters awareness and prevention in the Black community. Our vision is to help create a world in which survivors feel empowered to be HUSH No More. We believe that by having survivors share their stories with others a knowledge base is created which leads to safer communities. Dr. Vanessa Guyton is the organization’s founder and executive director. \nAbout Comfort in the Storm\nComfort In The Storm is an Atlanta-based organization dedicated to helping end the epidemic of child sexual abuse. As credentialed advocates\, the organization provides child sex abuse prevention and awareness training to groups and organizations of all sizes. Staff also provide peer support to survivors of child sexual abuse and their families. Kathy and Richard Butler founded the organization. \nRegister for Zoom Screening and Discussion Here
URL:https://thebatonfoundation.org/event/hush-no-more-domestic-violence-sexual-abuse-and-trauma-in-the-black-community/
CATEGORIES:Community Engagement
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