9/8: Unapologetic: Charlene A. Carruthers & Maurice Mitchell
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Braeden Lentz
Sep 3, 2018, 10:55:58 PM9/3/18
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Hey BMC Board Folks --
Please join Maurice Mitchell, the new National Director of the Working Families Party in conversation with Charlene A. Carruthers, founding national director of the BYP 100 to talk about 'Unapologetic: A Black, Queer, and Feminist Mandate for Radical Movements,' her guide as a 21st-century activist to upending mainstream ideas about race, class, and gender in order to carve out a path to collective liberation.
We'll kick off the evening with a half hour of drinks, mingling, and music, and get started with the conversation around 6PM. After, Maurice and Charlene will take questions from the audience.
Books will be available for purchase before and after the event, and Charlene will be signing books immediately following. Be sure to stick around after the event for dancing and a DJ!
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About the book:
Drawing on Black intellectual and grassroots organizing traditions, including the Haitian Revolution, the US civil rights movement, and LGBTQ rights and feminist movements, Unapologetic challenges all of us engaged in the social justice struggle to make the movement for Black liberation more radical, more queer, and more feminist. This book provides a vision for how social justice movements can become sharper and more effective through principled struggle, healing justice, and leadership development. It also offers a flexible model of what deeply effective organizing can be, anchored in the Chicago model of activism, which features long-term commitment, cultural sensitivity, creative strategizing, and multiple cross-group alliances. And Unapologetic provides a clear framework for activists committed to building transformative power, encouraging young people to see themselves as visionaries and leaders.
About Charlene:
Charlene A. Carruthers is a Black, queer feminist community organizer and writer with over 10 years of experience in racial justice, feminist and youth leadership development movement work. As the founding national director of the Black Youth Project 100 (BYP100), she has worked alongside hundreds of young Black activists to build a national base of activist member-led organizations of Black 18-35 year olds dedicated to creating justice and freedom for all Black people. Her work has been covered in several publications including the New York Times, Washington Post, Chicago Reader, The Nation, Ebony and Essence Magazines. She has appeared on CNN, Democracy Now!, BBC and MSNBC. Charlene has also written for theRoot.com, Colorlines and the Boston Review. Charlene's essay, "Remnants of Survival: Black Women and Legacies of Defiance" will be published in the forthcoming book The Burden by award-winning journalist Rochelle Riley. Follow her on Twitter: https://twitter.com/CharleneCac
About Maurice:
Maurice Mitchell will take the helm at the Working Families Party as National Director this summer. He brings more than twenty years of experience in community organizing, electoral politics and social movements to the role. Maurice developed a taste for organizing early. While at Howard University, a classmate was killed by Prince George’s County police, an episode also recounted in Ta-Nehisi Coates’ Between the World and Me. The killing led Maurice into a formative experience as a student organizer against police violence. Since college, has Maurice worked at the Long Island Progressive Coalition, leading advocacy and electoral campaigns, as well as Citizen Action of New York as Organizing Director for Citizen Action of New York, and ran the New York State Civic Engagement Table, a coalition of community and civic engagement groups working on issue and electoral campaigns to build progressive power. Most recently, Maurice went on to co-founded and managed Blackbird, an anchor organization within the Movement for Black Lives that provides strategic support and guidance to activists and groups around the country, born out of service to organizations on the ground responding to the police violence in Ferguson and St. Louis.
Maurice joins the Working Families Party at a time of rapid growth for the organization. His expertise and passion will be valuable assets as the party seeks to deepen and broaden its membership base, providing a political home for a newly energized generation of voters and activists.
Has anyone read Charlene Carruthers' book Unapologetic yet? I'm a few chapters in and am hoping to finish up by the event this Saturday 9/8 with our fellow board member Maurice: Unapologetic: Charlene A. Carruthers & Maurice Mitchell. I'm pasting the event copy below. Let me know if you're interested in meeting up there!
Braeden
We'll kick off the evening with a half hour of drinks, mingling, and music, and get started with the conversation around 6PM. After, Maurice and Charlene will take questions from the audience.
Books will be available for purchase before and after the event, and Charlene will be signing books immediately following. Be sure to stick around after the event for dancing and a DJ!
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About the book:
Drawing on Black intellectual and grassroots organizing traditions, including the Haitian Revolution, the US civil rights movement, and LGBTQ rights and feminist movements, Unapologetic challenges all of us engaged in the social justice struggle to make the movement for Black liberation more radical, more queer, and more feminist. This book provides a vision for how social justice movements can become sharper and more effective through principled struggle, healing justice, and leadership development. It also offers a flexible model of what deeply effective organizing can be, anchored in the Chicago model of activism, which features long-term commitment, cultural sensitivity, creative strategizing, and multiple cross-group alliances. And Unapologetic provides a clear framework for activists committed to building transformative power, encouraging young people to see themselves as visionaries and leaders.
About Charlene:
Charlene A. Carruthers is a Black, queer feminist community organizer and writer with over 10 years of experience in racial justice, feminist and youth leadership development movement work. As the founding national director of the Black Youth Project 100 (BYP100), she has worked alongside hundreds of young Black activists to build a national base of activist member-led organizations of Black 18-35 year olds dedicated to creating justice and freedom for all Black people. Her work has been covered in several publications including the New York Times, Washington Post, Chicago Reader, The Nation, Ebony and Essence Magazines. She has appeared on CNN, Democracy Now!, BBC and MSNBC. Charlene has also written for theRoot.com, Colorlines and the Boston Review. Charlene's essay, "Remnants of Survival: Black Women and Legacies of Defiance" will be published in the forthcoming book The Burden by award-winning journalist Rochelle Riley. Follow her on Twitter: https://twitter.com/CharleneCac
About Maurice:
Maurice Mitchell will take the helm at the Working Families Party as National Director this summer. He brings more than twenty years of experience in community organizing, electoral politics and social movements to the role. Maurice developed a taste for organizing early. While at Howard University, a classmate was killed by Prince George’s County police, an episode also recounted in Ta-Nehisi Coates’ Between the World and Me. The killing led Maurice into a formative experience as a student organizer against police violence. Since college, has Maurice worked at the Long Island Progressive Coalition, leading advocacy and electoral campaigns, as well as Citizen Action of New York as Organizing Director for Citizen Action of New York, and ran the New York State Civic Engagement Table, a coalition of community and civic engagement groups working on issue and electoral campaigns to build progressive power. Most recently, Maurice went on to co-founded and managed Blackbird, an anchor organization within the Movement for Black Lives that provides strategic support and guidance to activists and groups around the country, born out of service to organizations on the ground responding to the police violence in Ferguson and St. Louis.
Maurice joins the Working Families Party at a time of rapid growth for the organization. His expertise and passion will be valuable assets as the party seeks to deepen and broaden its membership base, providing a political home for a newly energized generation of voters and activists.
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