School Board Candidates Forum this Sunday, O'Neal, The New Jim Crow

[Dave]

http://allsoulskc.org/category/sunday-forum/

 

March 23, 10:00 am
“School Board Candidates’ Forum” with KCMO School Board Candidates  
On April 8 the Kansas City School District voters will elect new Board members. Should the State take over the  District? Is the Superintendent’s claimed come-back genuine? Hear what each candidate has to say, and then ask them your questions.

 

March 23, 10:00 am
“From Kansas City KS to Tanzania” with Charlotte “Mama C” O’Neal  
Our speaker will share her journey from growing up in KCKS and membership in the KC Black Panther Party to a life as a community activist, musician, poet, and artist in Tanzania.  She and her husband Pete run UAACC, the United African Alliance Community Center. (Historical note: Pete O’Neal, then leader of the KC Black Panther Party, spoke May 25, 1969  at the All Souls Forum on Why Revolution?)

If you heard the recent local and national news stories on Pete O’Neal, you may be especially interested in hearing about their experiences.

 

 

Reading Circles Begin for The New Jim Crow

Interested in learning about, discussing and taking corrective action

on the mass incarceration that is stripping large numbers of blacks

of voting and other rights, under the guise of a war on drugs?

The Racial Justice Committee announces the receipt of a grant from The

UU Funding Program to form interracial reading circles of The New Jim

Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness, by Michelle

Alexander.

 

The intent is to increase the number of individuals of varying ethnicities in

the Kansas City area to learn about the structures created by The War on

Drugs and institutionalization of our national dependence on mass

incarceration in the prison system, as described in the book. Hopefully, the

first groups will begin the end of March and will meet four times. After

reading and following discussion, each person/group will be made aware of

and encouraged to participate in local actions that are being taken to

address the issue of mass incarceration of people of color.

Contact janet brown moss, janetbri...@gmail.com.