DATE

EVENT/DESCRIPTION

HOST

February 19

Black History Month Coffee House Discussion focused in NYT 1619 essay:  “Myths about physical racial differences were used to justify slavery-and are still believed by doctors today” by Linda Villarosa

Community Coalition on Race

February 23

Exhibit featuring African-American/African diasporic artists.  Discussion of Black/Jewish Solidarity 

Temple Sharey Tefilo-Israel                                                                                                                              

Co-sponsors: SOMA Justice and

Community Coalition on Race

March 16

Workshop on making a platform for action

University of Orange

April

Ideas Festival

Maplewood Memorial Library

May

Educational Inequities

Jane Bleasdale

June

Juneteenth Event

Durand-Hedden House

July

OPEN

August

TBD

September

Discussion of NYT 1619 essay: “American democracy holds onto an undemocratic assumption: that some people deserve more power than others” by Jamelle Bouie.

Barbara Velazquez

September

Effects of mass incarceration

Sarah Wakefield

October

SOMA 1619 Project Closing

Community Coalition on Race