January 2024

The Work Continues

LaShauna Austria
January 16, 2024

The Seeds of Change Consulting team has been resting and dreaming over the past month. Mirroring the natural world around us, we have made intentional efforts to nestle into our comforts and processes for restoration. We are excited for the new year ahead of us, yet we acknowledge that the work of achieving liberation for all people continues on!

We are excited to continue efforts for offering our communities access to educational resources and highlighting opportunities to come together.

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^{"In a racist society, it is not enough to be non-racist. We must be anti-racist."}Angela Davis

Community Action

Highlights

How public attitudes toward Martin Luther King Jr. have changed since the 1960s

2023: "About eight-in-ten American adults (81%) say civil rights leader Martin Luther King Jr. has had a positive impact on the United States, according to a Pew Research Center report.."

1963: "only about four-in-ten Americans (41%) had a favorable opinion of King..."

From White Panthers to White Privilege: How White Allyship Got Lost in Algorithmic Translation

"In an era where 'allyship' is more often flaunted as a hashtag than lived as a responsibility, it's imperative we look back at what solidarity used to mean. Enter the White Panthers—a group that emerged in the volatile socio-political landscape of the late 1960s, not merely as allies but as comrades in the struggle against white supremacy and systemic injustice. "

Educational Resources

The Black Church

An intimate four-hour series from Henry Louis Gates, Jr., The Black Church: This Is Our Story, This Is Our Song will explore the 400-year-old story of the black church in America, the changing nature of worship spaces, and the men and women who shepherded them from the pulpit, the choir loft, and church pews.

“From the womb, we must repeat with regularity that to love ourselves is to survive. I believe that is what my father wanted for me and knew I would so desperately need: a tool for survival, the truth of my dignity named like a mercy new each morning.”

So writes Cole Arthur Riley in her unforgettable book of stories and reflections on discovering the sacred in her skin. In these deeply transporting pages, Arthur Riley reflects on the stories of her grandmother and father, and how they revealed to her an embodied, dignity-affirming spirituality, not only in what they believed but in the act of living itself.

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