THIS WEEK'S EVENT & NEWS SUMMARY
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Cornerstone Summer Institute Presentation
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Friday, June 28 | 11:30-1:00pm; Reception: 1:00-2:30pm | Rotunda Dome Room - Hotel C
The Cornerstone Summer Institute is off and running! We have 50 students from all across the country here to study the legacies of slavery and racism at UVA and in Charlottesville. They’ll be working hard on projects all week after visits to Jefferson School African American Heritage Center, Montpelier, Monticello, and Small Special Collections. We’d love if you would join us for their final presentations and a reception to celebrate our ‘graduates’ and counselors. This year, the final presentations will be held this Friday, June 28th 11:30-1:00pm in the Rotunda Dome Room and we will have a catered reception at Jefferson Hall (Hotel C) 1:00-2:30 directly after the presentations. We hope you can find some time to join us on Friday! The event is free and open to the public so please invite anyone who might be interested in their presentations. You can RSVP by responding to this email—we will have plenty of food, so please join us!
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TODAY, June 27 | 12-3pm | Sin Barreras
Come learn more about Sin Barreras, a small local Non Governmental Organization offering services to the immigrant, mostly Hispanic community.
As members of the Central Virginia community who directly or indirectly know the challenges faced by immigrants in the United States, our mission is to work for a more just community that includes and seeks to meet the needs of all its members. We know there are unmet needs for services and assistance to help individuals and families who have arrived to our community and country. We help them obtain educational, legal, advocacy, health, and other services. We help ease the stress and anxiety experienced by members of our immigrant communities and to assist them integrate to fuller participation U.S. society.
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Saturday June 29th | 8:00 AM | Jefferson School African American Heritage Center / Charlottesville
The “Run These Streets” 4 Miler begins and ends at the Jefferson School African American Heritage Center in Charlottesville, VA. The 4 mile course is designed to run through historical African American markers, neighborhoods, and landmarks within the city of Charlottesville, VA.
The goal of this run/walk is to encourage and increase physical fitness and wellness within the African American community, highlight and educate runners on the highlights of the African American Community within the city, and to raise funds for We Code, Too. We Code, Too is a local non-profit organization that teaches African American and LatinX youth how to code and program. We Code Too also works with members of the re-entry community to provide ex-offenders and formerly incarcerated persons the digital skills that they need to reenter society and obtain jobs.
REGISTRATION (all entry fees are non-refundable and non-transferable)
$20 through May 15 (Early Bird)
$25 May 16th Through June 9th
$30 June 10th Through June 20th
$35 Day of race (cash or check only)
PLEASE NOTE: ONLINE REGISTRATION WILL CLOSE ON THURSDAY, JUNE 20TH AT MIDNIGHT.
Finisher Medals: All registered participants that complete this event will receive a custom finisher medal!
Personalized bibs: All participants (registered by June 9th) will receive a personalized bib number with your name.
PLACE:
Jefferson School African American Heritage Center
233 4th St. NW
Charlottesville, VA 22902
We are requesting for all participants to park in the lower garage at the Carver Rec. Center.
PACKET PICKUP AND RACE DAY REGISTRATION:
Early Packet Pickup and Late Registration will be available on Friday, June 21st from 3pm - 6pm at the Jefferson School African American Heritage Center.
Jefferson School African American Heritage Center
233 4th St. NW
Charlottesville, VA 22902
Packets can also be picked up the morning of the race beginning at 6am at the start / finish line. Friends or family may pick up packet for participants. No I.D. required.
SPONSOR A RUNNER
If you would like to sponsor a runner or another local youth organization that would not otherwise be able to compete please click on the Donate tab during the registration process and select the Fund a Runner option.
RACE WEBSITE
Additional race information can be found at https://www.wecodetoocville.com/RunTheseStreets
RACE CONTACT INFO
If you have any questions about this race, contact RunTheseStreetsCville@gmail.com or by phone at 434-327-7873.
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July 9 | 7:00 pm | To Register >
We’re thrilled to invite you to SURJ’s conversation with Angela Davis on the fight for collective liberation. Across the country, SURJ members are working hard to bring new people into fights for justice – and we’re sure this conversation will provide inspiration and wisdom for the struggles we are engaged in across the country.
Register here to join the call July 9th at 8:00 EST. Then share the invitation on Facebook with family, friends and comrades.
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American Idol 2019 Contestant “Shayy” Highlights the 11th Annual Summer Thinkshop
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Thursday, July 18 | 10:30am-12pm | Burley Middle School
Charlottesville, VA – Author, award winner, Mr. Alex~Zan presents the 11th Annual Summer Thinkshop with this year’s theme, Just CYM (Close Your Mouth) & Listen. The purpose of this event is to provide a fun, creative, educational and positive experience for area children, (particularly summer campers) the event will be held on Thursday, July 18, 2019, 10:30 AM - Noon at Burley Middle School, 901 Rose Hill Drive, Charlottesville VA. The main highlight is American Idol 2019 Top 40 Contestant “Shayy”; an 18 year old high school graduate from Midlothian, VA who suddenly lost her sight due to a brain tumor. Other highlights include: Zania - 8 year old praise dancer; talented youth musician Devon Goodwin; presentations by the Thomas Jefferson Health Department and Jefferson Madison Regional Library. The event is free and handouts, prizes and more will be available. Sponsors are: York Place, M R Enterprises, T & N Printing, The Ebony Social Club, Blue Ridge Graphics, Ebenezer Baptist Church and J. F. Bell Funeral Services.
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We the community members of Charlottesville come together this summer in a spirit of healing and unity for a variety of events that educate, inspire, and honor people in our community in order to move towards economic and racial justice.
Charlottesville City Council has designated the second weekend of August (and August 12 when it falls during the week) for the annual Unity Days. In this inaugural year, events will take place from May through August with each month having a specific theme:
May: Our community’s history of race relations
June: Breaking down institutions of oppression
July: Honoring community and neighborhood leaders making change
August: Four days of activities focusing on education, honor, inspirations, and solemn remembrance
These events will take place at venues throughout the community including Market Street Park, Court Square Park, the Downtown Mall and Fourth Street.
The city-sponsored, community-driven events focus on the theme of unity, and include musical performances, speakers, conversations, children’s activities, films, exhibits, festivals, faith-based gatherings, and more.
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By Andrew W. Kahrl | Original Publication: The New York Times | Photo Credit: Oklahoma Historical Society/Getty Images | Published: June 2019
"A House Judiciary subcommittee on Wednesday held the first hearing in over a decade on the issue of reparations for black Americans. The hearing took place, fittingly, on the Juneteenth holiday, commemorating the announcement of the end of slavery in the United States, and five years after the writer Ta-Nehisi Coates, who testified, reignited the debate with his 2014 essay “The Case for Reparations.” Once a fringe topic, reparations has emerged as an issue in the 2020 presidential campaign, with several leading candidates for the Democratic nomination expressing support for various measures to atone for America’s racist past.
Thanks to Mr. Coates and others, today’s movement for reparations places as much emphasis on the racist public policies of the 20th century, which denied black Americans opportunities to build wealth and left them vulnerable to all manner of economic exploitation, as it does on the crimes of slavery. Many leading proponents of reparations point to the federal government’s failure to provide land and resources (40 acres and a mule) to former slaves following emancipation, as promised, as laying the course for today’s inequities. “Had such a racial land reform taken place,” the Duke University economist William Darity Jr. argues, “it is easy to envision that the vast current differences in wealth between black and nonblacks would not exist.” Mr. Darity has gone so far as to use the ungranted 40 acres of land that was due former slaves as the basis for calculating the amount of reparations due to their descendants today..."
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By: Caroline Newman | Original Publication: UVA Today | Published June 2019 | Image: Community Idea Stations
"Danville Police Chief Scott Booth publicly apologized for the police department’s brutality toward civil rights demonstrators during an event known as Bloody Monday in 1963.
It was the first such apology from a city police chief and it came just one day after the 56th anniversary of the June 10, 1963, incident.
Booth gave the apology after local civil rights leader Bishop Lawrence Campbell Sr., pastor at Bibleway Cathedral, recounted his wife, Gloria, being beaten by the police chief at that time.
“I have forgiven him and I hope that God does too,” Campbell said during a special interview led by Booth during an event held at Averett University on Tuesday afternoon..."
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Charlottesville's Other Monuments: Changing the Narrative of the City's Public Spaces
Thursday July 11 | 7-8:30pm | Jefferson School African American Heritage Center
Moderator: Gayle Jessup White, Community Engagement Officer, Monticello
Panelists: Dr. Mabel Wilson, Professor of Architecture, Columbia University, Dr. Andrea Douglas, Executive Director, Jefferson School African American Heritage Center, Kiara Boone, Deputy Director of Community Education, Equal Justice Initiative.
If all goes to plan, by 2024, the anniversary of the installment of the last commissioned confederate monument, Charlottesville will be the home of three major objects informed by local African American history. In this conversation, the University's Monument to Enslaved Workers, the Dialogue on Race's Vinegar Hill Monument, and the Equal Justice Initiative's Lynching module will be considered. The discussion will suggest the ways that these substantial works impact the City's public space and racial narrative.
The event is sponsored in collaboration with the Albemarle/ Charlottesville Community Remembrance Project. It is free and open to the public.
Parking at the City Center is limited. Please consider alternate modes of transportation.
https://www.facebook.com/events/388367348429183
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1st Harambee Family Events
January-December 2019 | Various Times | Various Locations
Charlottesville, VA - Harambee Family Events is a calendar that highlights African American Cultural Activities in Charlottesville and surrounding areas. The calendar, created and designed by author, award winner, Mr. Alex-Zan, presents 18 events from January 2019 - December 2019.
The Harambee (Swahili - All Pull Together) culture events objectives are to inspire and unify area citizens to communicate more effectively and create/maintain a positive environment for change and civility. The calendar also strives to strengthen family relations and culture awareness, particularly African Americans who have experienced a lack of inclusion in many area events.
The Harambee Family Event Calendar will be distributed throughout Central VA. - schools, churches, businesses, clubs/organizations and social media to name a few. The calendar sponsors are: (CAT) Charlottesville Area Transit, Wegmans, Blue Ridge Graphics and Carter Myers Automotive.
To view the calendar, visit: Alex-Zan.com
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UCARE is a coalition of community and university members, founded with the goal of understanding and addressing racial harms that may be seen in the community and at the university, in areas such as housing, employment, health, education, the justice system, and more. UCARE has connected community and university groups and individuals. We have prompted changes in how UVa understands and represents its history. We have called attention to and prompted action addressing racial disparities in student admissions and faculty recruitment as well as in conditions of workers, including support for a living wage. But we have much more to do; the quest for racial equity is a long ways from being over. We are grateful to Westminster Presbyterian Church for their financial support the last two years. And we are pleased that the W. W. Kellogg Foundation has offered us a grant for two years. Among other items, this will allow UCARE to convene Charlottesville Acts for Racial Equity (CARE). Stay tuned for ways you can be involved in 2018.
If you have community events of interest please email us at ucarestaff@gmail.com.
You will reach UCARE project manager Frank Dukes.
And, as always, if you have ideas for funding sources to support this work, please contact us at that same address.
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Submissions
Please submit information about someone or an organization that have positively impacted the community. Submit at UCAREStaff@Gmail.com.
Deadline: Every Thursday
Feedback
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