African American Legacy FundAfrican American Legacy is now accepting applications for the 2018 grant cycle to support grassroots organizations with programmatic focus on the following areas:
• Social Justice: Education and Training of Youth Activists
• Immigration: Policy/Systems Change and Direct Service specific to those of the African Diaspora
• Mental Health: Responding to Street, Gun and Police Violence
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Building a #MeToo Worker-Led Resistance In the wake of #Metoo, survivors in Chicago from across cultural identities and blue-collar industries have called for a movement of resistance to tolerance of sexual violence in the workplace, for all low-wage workers.
To build this movement the Coalition Against Workplace Sexual violence is holding a two-day community training on May 6 & 7 to provide workers and activists the tools to:
• Facilitate community dialogue about the root causes of gender violence;
• Help community members experiencing violence increase their safety and assert their rights; and
• Practice solidarity with survivors at an individual and organizational level.
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Chicago Freedom School's Freedom Fellowship
Are you passionate about social justice? Are you ready to develop your voice to fight oppression? During the Freedom Fellowship, young leaders of color ages 13-17 have the opportunity to build leadership and community organizing skills to become community changemakers. Fellows explore the history of social movements and current issues such as racism, access to healthy food, school to prison pipeline, sexism, climate change, and much more in order to develop skills and analysis for dismantling injustice in our communities. Click here for more information and to apply.
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Chicago African Americans In Philanthropy
Local artists will share how their work is inspired by and responds to social justice and activism. May 17, 2018, 4:00
JP Morgan Chase & Co. 10 S. Dearborn Street, 57th Floor, Chicago
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What's at Stake: The Citizenship Question and the Census
By Alejandra Ibanez, Lead Program Officer
On March 26th U.S. Commerce Secretary Wilbur Ross announced that the 2020 Census would add a question about citizenship. This last-minute change stunned many including past Census Bureau leaders and current advisors to the Bureau who publicly stated “it would put the accuracy of the enumeration and success of the census in all communities at great risk.” For many, including myself, a naturalized US citizen, this decision showcases the Trump administration’s relentless anti-immigrant rhetoric and attacks on Black and communities of color…and the attempt to erase our communities for years to come. Keep reading...
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When 'crime fighting' = treating Black behavior as pathological
By Jessyca Dudley, in Crain's Chicago Business
On the heels of racial bias incidents at Starbucks in Philadelphia and Water Tower Place in Chicago comes our city's latest investment in crime control: More surveillance of black bodies. Read more...
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