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Shrinks on Third

Oct 27, 2020

There are may ways - old and new, legal and illegal - to interfere with the right of people to cast their vote. How can voting be suppressed?  Let us count the ways. And, let us take serious action against all forms of voter suppression. 


Oct 20, 2020

The session in which we explore the history of blackface. We talk about its origins, how it developed over time, and why it's offensive. Blackface brings up a very disrespectful, demeaning racist societal history. We learned how insidiously such things were a part of our upbringing and it's part of the racism we...


Oct 13, 2020

Who comes first to your mind when you think about African American tennis players? There are several we all know now including Serena and Venus Williams, Sloane Stephens, and Frances Tiafoe to name a few. Many people think first of Arthur Ashe who was the only Black man to win the singles title at Wimbledon, the US...


Oct 6, 2020

We begin our 3rd season journey into learning and uncovering as much as we can about our truthful past with RedLining - a practice that purposely maintained segregation through discrimination in lending. We discuss its racist history, how it promoted both segregation and the wealth gap, and the continued forms it...