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Beloved Community Equity at Work Program Expands
As one of 17 awardees selected, New Mexico State University will lead a team to establish an Environmental Justice Thriving Communities Technical Assistance Center in the region to help underserved and overburdened communities with environmental justice concerns remove barriers and improve accessibility to federal grant application systems. The project plans to expand on Beloved Community’s Equity at Work Communities of Practice program. Beloved will lead the integration and bring together leadership teams from 20 to 30 organizations throughout the region. Participants will develop both interpersonal and institutional capacities to disrupt systemic racism and discrimination that manifests within their organization and its operations.
Black and Bilingual
Read our Beloved’s contribution to Critical Consciousness in Dual Language Bilingual Education: ‘Black and Bilingual: Challenges in Decentering Whiteness in Dual Language Bilingual Education’ by Rhonda J. Broussard, Faith R. Kares, Nicole Caridad Ralston, Maria Patrizia Santos.
A key resource for supporting student needs and transformative inquiry in the classroom, this book is ideal for graduate students, professors, leaders, educators, and other stakeholders in bilingual education and language education.
Decentering Mythology & Consumerism.
Thanksgiving itself is part of American mythology. As a child, you may have heard this story, one centered on white kindness and “pilgrims and indians” gathered together in harmony over dinner. However, the real history of the holiday, like much of this country’s past, describes the violence of white supremacy and colonization.
National Native American Heritage Month: Centering African-Native Americans.
November is National Native American Heritage Month, a time to celebrate Indigenous Peoples of the Americas, a time to learn and reflect on the original inhabitants of this continent. Owing no doubt to my own ethnic heritage and work (I am a Louisiana Creole and a member of the Atakapa-Ishak Nation) I’d like to reflect on persons who are of both African and Native American ancestry.
Confessions of a DEI Professional
Working in diversity, equity and inclusion is complicated. There are the day-to-day difficulties: dealing with the delusions of white supremacy/supremacists, subconsciously looping a list of every injustice in the world, and constantly being called upon to “talk to” that family member, but we know that comes with the territory.
Lessons Learned at CRT Camp.
For a week in August, the African American Policy Forum (a think tank headed up by one of the most influential antiracist educators and critical race theorists in the country, Dr. Kimberlé Crenshaw) hosted CRT Summer School to help folx across sectors understand the politically-motivated, unwarranted attacks against truth-telling in K-12 schools and institutions of higher education.
Multiple Truths
People often don’t make space for the existence of others’ experiences due to a real fear of a false assumption: that doing so will erase the existence of their own experiences.
APIDA Complexities: Learning, Unlearning, Relearning
Domestic (to the United States) and global APIDA communities are complex and diasporic. In order to dismantle anti-Asian violence, we must start by disaggregating and differentiating Asian identities, experiences, and cultures that typically get lumped together and create dangerous monoliths. The mythology of the model minority is one of those monoliths. The model minority myth asserts that the “Asian community” is high achieving and successful, positioning them as an exemplar for other BIPOC to emulate.
The Erasure of Black Women From History Needs to Stop.
Today is the 106th birthday of Thurgood Marshall, who was not only the first African American Supreme Court Justice but an integral figure in the ruling of Brown v. Board of Education. And although he is a triumphant leader in the outlawing of segregation, many people fail to realize that he did not do this alone. In fact, he likely would not have received such great recognition without the works of a revolutionary civil rights feminist, Pauli Murray.
Pride Isn't About Parades or Rainbows.
Don’t forget, the first pride was a riot. As we celebrate queerness and pride month we must uphold our black and brown trans community as the foundation and direct reason for our progress.