Black History Month 2023
The theme for Black History month 2023 is Black Resistance.
The theme explores how “African Americans have resisted historic and ongoing oppression, in all forms, especially the racial terrorism of lynching, racial profiling, and police killings.” As societal and political forces escalate to limit access to and exercise of the ballot, eliminate the teaching of Black history, and work to push us back into the 1890s, we can only rely on our capacity to resist. The enactment of HR 40, the John Lewis Voting Rights Act, the Breathe Act, and the closure of the racial wealth gap is not the end. They too will require us to mobilize our resources, human and material, and fight for “freedom, justice, and equality”; “self-determination”, and/or “social transformation.”
ASALH (Association for the Study of African American Life and History), and the organization that provides the Black History month themes, has issued a call to everyone, inside and outside the academy, to study the history of Black Americans’ responses to establish safe spaces, where Black life can be sustained, fortified, and respected.
Everything Co-op commemorates this year’s Black History Month with a line up of special guests…
Show Lineup
- February 2 – Rev. Dr. Reginald Flynn, founder and President of North Flint Reinvestment Corporation (NFRC), a community economic development corporation providing neighborhood stabilization, youth development, community organizing, and early childhood education management services to neighborhood groups, block clubs, schools, and local government entities.
- February 9 – Jennie Stephens, CEO at the Center for Heirs’ Property – Preservation of Black owned Land Ph.D., CEO of the Center for Heirs Property Preservation.
- February 16 – Pastor Keith Davis, President and CEO of the Camden Dream Center’s Technology Training School in Camden, New Jersey & Attorney Julian D. Miller, Esq., founding Executive Director of the Reuben V. Anderson Center for Justice at Tougaloo College in Mississippi.
- February 23 – Renee Hatcher Esq., Solidarity Economy & Sustainable Economic Justice Attorney Hatcher is a human rights and community development lawyer who is also an Assistant Professor of Law, and Director of the Community Enterprise & Solidarity Economy Clinic at UIC John Marshall Law School (JMLS)
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