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Anti-Racism Update 1.28.26

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AR QUIZ

  • What was the Free African Society?

ACTION

  • Join Urgent ICE Out of Wisconsin Action Today: Wednesday, January 28th at 4:30pm. There are multiple ways to take action: attend the event at the State Capitol and bring mutual aid items for Minnesota, call your Senators now about HR7147 and demand that they remove funding for ICE to end the violence and rights violations (scripts provided at the site), or sign up for action alerts. https://www.actwis.co/
  • Provide direct support to Minnesota. Across Minnesota, ICE continues to stop, harass, and detail people regardless of their citizenship status. Normal life in Minnesota has been interrupted, as schools have been forced to close or go virtual, as people live in fear of leaving their homes or going to work. Minnesotans need our help. This comprehensive website provides testimonies and organizations seeking mutual aid. https://www.standwithminnesota.com/

EDUCATION

  • Bronzeville: An American Story. February 15th 2:00-3:00pm via Zoom. Bronzeville is a large neighborhood on the city’s South Side running south of Cermak Road between Lake Michigan and King Drive on the east and the Dan Ryan Expressway on the west; 47th Street was and remains the hub of the neighborhood. During the Great Migration of the 1910s, the population of the area increased dramatically as Black Americans fled the segregated South in search of jobs and an improved quality of life. Residents included Ida B. Wells, Gwendolyn Brooks, Lou Rawls, Louis Armstrong, and many others. A portion of the neighborhood was designated as the Chicago landmark Black Metropolis District in 1998. This free annual program in honor of Black History Month is co-sponsored by Glessner House, Friends of Historic Second Church, Quinn Chapel A.M.E. Church, and Second Presbyterian Church. The program is free of charge but registration is required.
  • Check out this article by Kat Griffith, from Winnebago Friends meeting. She discusses the work she, and Northern Yearly Meeting, have done in support of the Brothertown Tribe. https://www.friendsjournal.org/friends-stand-with-the-brothertown/
  • Black History For a New Day – Updated Link. Registration is open for the February 16 – April 27 cohort of Justified Anger’s “Black History for a New Day” with a discount of 10% off (code: HOLIDAYGIFT10) or – if you have taken this course before – with a 50% discount (code: ALUMNI). The 9-week course is available in three formats: Monday in-person, Monday virtual, and self-paced/asynchronous. The purpose is to understand how the African-American experience has shaped the world we live in and how allies can find roles supporting racial justice today. Highly recommended by the Racial Justice Ministry Team. https://courses.justifiedanger.com/component/eventbooking/course-registration/2026-bhfand-cohort/219?Itemid=762
  • Watch the recording of the Madison and Dane County Martin Luther King Day Event:  The event includes the Black National Anthem: Lift Every Voice and Sing, which is also song #279 in our hymnal. Lift Every Voice and Sing was a hymn written as a poem by NAACP leader James Weldon Johnson in 1900. His brother, John Rosamond Johnson (1873-1954), composed the music for the lyrics. A choir of 500 schoolchildren at the segregated Stanton School, where James Weldon Johnson was principal, first performed the song in public in Jacksonville, Florida to celebrate President Abraham Lincoln’s birthday.

AR QUIZ ANSWER

  • The Free American Society in Philadelphia was formed by Richard Allen and Absalam Jones. It launched on this day in 1778. The society was designed to provide guidance to 2,000 freed people who were formerly enslaved. It served as a model for future banks in the Black community. Learn more here.


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