Date/Time
Date(s) - September 14, 2020
6:30 pm - 8:00 pm
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Antiracism Reading Group begins with Eddie Glaude Jr.’s Book, Begin Again James Baldwin’s America and Its Urgent Lessons for Our Own An Adult Religious Education Opportunity – Begins Monday, September 14, 2020!
Priscilla Kron and Millie Davis invite you to join us in reading to learn more about #BlackLivesMatter, institutionalized racism, and the defund-the-police movements across the nation and here in Champaign-Urbana so that we can be better supporters of our black and brown neighbors and live up to the UUA’s revolutionary report, Widening the Circle of Concern and our own UUCUC’s Statement on Black Lives Matter.
This is suitable for high school – adults.
For information and registration please see: https://uucuc.breezechms.com/form/ddc5fa8762
Our discussions will be guided by a Covenant and we’ll begin our reading with two books, Eddie Glaude, Jr.’s Begin Again: James Baldwin’s America and Its Urgent Lessons for Our Own, and Ibram X. Kendi’s How to Be an Antiracist.
Discussions will be held on Mondays from 6:30 p.m. – 8 p.m. on:
- September 14: Glaude, Jr.–Introduction–Chapter 3
- September 28: Glaude, Jr.–Chapter 4–Conclusion
- October 5: James Baldwin Discussion with Dr. Eddie Glaude from The Urbana Free Library
- October 26: Kendi–Introduction–Chapter 6
- November 23: Kendi–Chapter 7–Chapter 12
- December 14: Kendi–Chapter 13-Chapter 18
Antiracism Reading Group Covenant
We agree to create and maintain a safe discussion space by:
- Honoring confidentiality of personal information brought into the discussion
- Listening carefully with an open, non-judgmental mind to the words and ideas of others
- Centering responses on personal experience without judgment of others and their experiences
- Engaging in the reading in advance to focus the discussion on common ideas and language