2017-2018 Speak Truth Seminars
May 23, 2018 at Cesar Chavez Public Charter School (Capitol Hill Campus)
Discussion Topics & Readings:
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Kanye West and the Rules of Black Celebrity Politics – I’m Not Black, I’m Kanye
April 18, 2018 at McKinley Technology High School
Discussion Topics & Readings:
- Urban Students Punished For Suburban Student Violence – Zero Tolerance Discipline Policies Won’t Fix School Shootings & Zero Tolerance, School Shootings and the Post-Brown Quest for Equity in Discipline Policy: An examination of How Urban Minorities Are Punished for White Suburban Violence
- Guns and Domestic Violence – To Stop Violence, Start at Home & The Boyfriend Loophole
- Mark(er) Your Spot In History: Student Activism and Gun Violence – What Will Nationwide School Walkouts Accomplish? & Schools That Silence, And Schools That Collaborate, Can Hurt Student Activism
- Gun Violence Abroad – US Gun Policy: Global Comparisons & How to Buy a Gun in 15 Countries & Australia’s Gun Laws are Not a Model for America
- Never Again, For Who? Gun Violence in Communities of Color – How the #NeverAgain Movement is Disrupting Gun Politics & We Need to Talk About Black Lives Matter and Gun Violence After the Florida Shooting
April 5, 2018 at Georgetown Day School
Discussion Topics & Readings:
- Interracial Relationships – How Interracial Love is Saving America & As Get Out Shows, Love Isn’t All You Need in Interracial Relationships
- Intersectionality – The Urgency of Intersectionality & Age, Race, Class and Sex Redefining Differences
- Political Gaslighting – What is Gaslighting? & Sean Hannity Cranks Up The Gaslight
February 21, 2018 at Thurgood Marshall Academy Public Charter School
Discussion Topics & Readings:
- Aziz Ansari, Sexual Assault & Cultural Norms – I Went on a Date With Aziz Ansari. It Turned Into the Worse Night of My Life & Aziz Ansari is Guilty. Of Not Being a Mind Reader & The Aziz Ansari Story is Ordinary. That’s Why We Have to Talk About It & The Female Price of Male Pleasure
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Gentrification in the District – Old Confronts New in a Gentrifying DC Neighborhood
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Black Toxic Masculinity – Reconstructing Black Masculinity & Boundless Black Masculinity
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Scientific Racism – Racism is Creeping Back into Mainstream Science
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Black Diaspora in the US – Too Black, But Not Black Enough & Amara La Negra Responds to Blackface Rumors & Amara la Negra Deserves Better
February 8, 2018 at Edmund Burke School
Discussion Topics & Readings:
- Half a Century Later: Housing Discrimination in DC? – Gentrification in DC Raises Property Values, But Does It Also Push People Out? & Old Confronts New in a Gentrifying DC Neighborhood & Black Branding – How a DC Neighborhood Was Marketed to White Millenials
- Mental Illness & Race In the US – Why Mental Health Organizations Should Endorse The Movement for Black Lives & A Movement Against Racism Should Be a Movement for Mental Health
- What’s Now & What’s Next for BLM? – BLM Is Democracy in Action & Can Black Lives Matter Win in the Age of Trump
- The War on Drugs – Want to See Proof of Institutional Racism? Let Weed Open Your Eyes & A Billion-Dollar Industry, A Racist Legacy: Being Black and Growing Pot In America
- The Intersection of Race & Gender – Women and Black Lives Matter: An Interview with Marcia Chatelain & Black Lives Matter Organizers Hold a Rally in DC for Black Trans Women
- #BlackLivesMatter: Social Media & The Movement – #BlackTwitter After #Ferguson & Social Media Helps BLM Fight the Power
December 14, 2017 at Georgetown Day School
Discussion Topics & Readings:
- The N Word – Coates on the N Word & The N Word
- Confederate Memorials – Mayor Landrieu Speech
- Protesting for Rights – Civil Rights Protests Have Never Been Popular
- Black History Month – Coates on BHM & the History of BHM
- Interracial Friendships – Can My Children Be Friends With White People
October 18th, 2017 at The SEED School of Washington, D.C.
Discussion Topics & Readings:
- Orange is the New Barack – The First White President
- AP Classes – Who Benefits From the Expansion of A.P. Classes
- The Past, Present, and Future of the DACA program – A Nation of Immigrants, ‘A Nation Of Laws’
- Mass Incarceration – “The Black Family in the Age of Mass Incarceration”
- Confederate Memorials – Four Perspectives on Removing Confederate Monuments & Confederate Monuments Are Coming Down Across the United States…
Our students are changemakers. It’s very important to put them in positions of power with support and learning, organizing and commitment to issues of injustice.