Name: Community Living Room: What to do with the Black Vote?
Start: 2024-09-19T17:30:00-04:00
End: 2024-09-19T19:30:00-04:00
Location: Nafasi on Centre

Community Living Room: What to do with the Black Vote?

Together, we will grapple with the historic fight for Black electoral justice, the enduring power of the Black vote.

Nafasi on Centre

For social media, use the following for write up: What to do with the Black vote?In this Community Living Room series, we will engage with "I Won’t Vote" (1956) by W.E.B. Du Bois, "The Ballot or the Bullet" (1964) by Malcolm X, "Give Us the Ballot" (1957) by Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., and Fannie Lou Hamer’s (1964) powerful testimony from "Freedom Summer."Together, we will grapple with the historic fight for Black electoral justice, the enduring power of the Black vote, and the difficult task of staying politically engaged when the choice is often between the lesser of two evils. How do we sharpen our consciousness around these themes and understand voting in what Saidiya Hartman calls the afterlife of slavery?Required Readings:<ol><li><a href="https://www.thenation.com/article/archive/i-wont-vote/" title="https://www.thenation.com/article/archive/i-wont-vote/" target="_blank" data-msys-clicktrack="0" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer">https://www.thenation.com/article/archive/i-wont-vote/</a></li><li><a href="https://kinginstitute.stanford.edu/king-papers/documents/give-us-ballot-address-delivered-prayer-pilgrimage-freedom" title="https://kinginstitute.stanford.edu/king-papers/documents/give-us-ballot-address-delivered-prayer-pilgrimage-freedom" target="_blank" data-msys-clicktrack="0" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer">https://kinginstitute.stanford.edu/king-papers/documents/give-us-ballot-address-delivered-prayer-pilgrimage-freedom</a></li><li><a href="http://www.edchange.org/multicultural/speeches/malcolm_x_ballot.html" title="http://www.edchange.org/multicultural/speeches/malcolm_x_ballot.html" target="_blank" data-msys-clicktrack="0" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer">http://www.edchange.org/multicultural/speeches/malcolm_x_ballot.html</a></li></ol>Required Viewing:<ol><li><a href="https://youtu.be/07PwNVCZCcY?si=qOjEZGuid4763ln-" title="https://youtu.be/07PwNVCZCcY?si=qOjEZGuid4763ln-" target="_blank" data-msys-clicktrack="0" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer">https://youtu.be/07PwNVCZCcY?si=qOjEZGuid4763ln-</a></li><li>https://www.thenation.com/article/archive/i-wont-vote/<a href="https://youtu.be/07PwNVCZCcY?si=qOjEZGuid4763ln-" title="https://youtu.be/07PwNVCZCcY?si=qOjEZGuid4763ln-" target="_blank" data-msys-clicktrack="0" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer"> </a></li></ol>

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