Community Conversations on Race [CCoR]
Join Us for More Action Steps . . .
February 26 in-person
It's Black History Month!
Join us on Monday, Feb 26, 2024, at 6:00-7:30pm for our special speaker
Dr. Ali Michael leading a “training for courage.”
Ali is a renowned local anti-racist educator and author of Our Problem, Our Path: Collective Anti-racism for White People and White Fragility, Adapted for Young Adults. Ali Michael
February 26, 2024
Monday 6:00pm - 7:30pm
Jenkintown Public Library
Community Room
460 York Road, Jenkintown, PA 19046
Suggested donation: $0 - $10 - pay as you are led! [registration below]
Race is a hard subject to talk about. But if we want to understand and connect with friends and neighbors and colleagues better, conversation is essential.
Community Conversation on Race is a group of folks - neighbors and colleagues - who meet to learn how to have those conversations, to build the courage to lean into difficult discussions, and to practice skills for making those conversations more honest and more effective.
We will work on overcoming the fear that keeps us from speaking up or taking action, as well as learning how to confidently and competently engage in those challenging moments.
“The smallest change in perspective can transform a life,” says Oprah Winfrey.
Come find out how that can be true about a rich conversation!
CCoR Plan for 2023-2024
PLAN FOR 2023-2024
We wanted you to know about our plan for this year, following our very successful in-person meeting this week when we showed André Robert Lee's film The Road to Justice. It felt like coming full circle in a way since our very first meeting was at the Hiway Theater for a screening of André's film I'm Not Racist, Am I? Click below to read more about this event.
This year we plan to have an in-person meeting back in the local community one month, followed the next month by a Zoom meeting. We want to continue to include the voices of those of you who live beyond our neighborhood radius.
JANUARY 9, 2024 (Tues) 7:00 PM EST - We will meet online (zoom) to respond to our recent film's call for action by writing letters together to the editors of newspapers and other media outlets. No matter what cause is most urgent for you, this is an effective tool. Register HERE.
FEBRUARY 26, 2024 (Mon) 6:30 PM EST at the Jenkintown Library. We have invited white anti-racist author Dr. Ali Michael to lead us in some practices from her book Our Problem, Our Path: Collective Anti-Racism for White People.
Our MARCH meeting will be virtual.
Our APRIL meeting will be in person with guest speaker, Niyonu Spann on the Peace, Liberation, and the Arts Camp and the community of Chester, PA.
We hope to see you one way or another, continuing our work together.
Deborra, Toni, and Mary Lynn
Road to Justice Screening [Discussion Guide & Anti-racist Audit]
December 2023 program - Read more about it!
The Road to Justice Film Screening
"This isn't Black history; it's is American history."
It's history for all of us!
We had a Talk-Back with the executive producer, André Robert Lee
The Road to Justice follows two groups on a Civil Rights tour through the American South as they reckon with the profound racial injustice of our recent past. The first, a group of predominantly Black middle school students from Chicago, and the second, a group of older Americans who lived through the 1960’s Civil Rights era. The film is a testament to the power of place and direct experience in creating transformational change.
It is also a call to action.
The 30-minute film is appropriate for grades seven and higher and can be used to facilitate the challenging conversations we all must have in order to move forward and build a better world.
If you are called to action, here is a resource that was distributed at the screening event
December 5, 2023 Anti-racist Personal Audit and Resources
Facilitators
Mary Lynn Ellis - Abington Friends School, Faculty Alum
Toni Graves Williamson - Friends Select School and Race Institute
Deborra Sines Pancoe - Friends Council on Education
Sponsors
Friends Council on Education, Abington Friends School, Friends Select School, and Race Institute for K-12 Educators