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More great resources, from Peter

  Black History Month 2021  Prepared for the Dignity/Washington   Community P ublished February 18, 2021 Introduction:   We are already in the middle of February and  Black History Month . Much has happened in 2020 in which we witnessed in real time social and political injustices that permeates our country. As a follow-up to the three-part essay I wrote last year, you will find an introduction and links to articles and videos available to explore why the  Black Lives Matter movement is critical to the change so desperately needed in America. Article: Each February, Black History Month (also known as African American History Month) is an annual celebration of achievements by African Americans and a time for recognizing their contributions to the foundation of America often downplayed in U.S. history. Last February, I wrote a three-part essay describing my experience with the title,  “Living in a Paradox.”   Since then, almost weekly events occurre...

Half Dozen Sources from our February Gathering

  The Green Book https://www.nytimes.com/video/opinion/100000006276181/traveling-black-us-greenbook.html?referringSource=articleShare President Barack Obama's Memoir https://obamabook.com Review of James Baldwin's Begin Again https://www.nytimes.com/2020/06/30/books/review-begin-again-james-baldwin-eddie-glaude-jr.html The Black Church: This Is Our Story, This Is Our Song.  Henry Louis Gates, Jr on PBS. Being released this week. https://religionnews.com/2021/02/05/henry-louis-gates-new-book-tv-series-distills-centuries-of-black-church-history/ The Truth in Black and White.  The Kansas City Star Apologizes https://www.kansascity.com/news/local/article247928045.html Bartunda Thurston' Ted Talks https://www.ted.com/speakers/baratunde_thurston