Get fired up over the ways we want to see change. My interactions with black folx for this project have felt vital in the way I understand my life story. I am now a young woman who wants change, and if you don’t change nothing, nothing will CHANGE.” I have also been thrilled to see people like me care about the things I feel strongly about. I have been amazed by what people have had to say. As a millennial it’s hard to get someone to understand how you feel or even have the courage to do something like this. Being able to go around my community, my city and beyond is just what I needed to open up and have my voice heard. Louis, the city she grew up in, she talks about its significance: “Since I’ve joined the Black Census Project, I have been able to be myself. Gifted with the opportunity to do the work in St. My co-organizer, Alexis, has felt equally inspired. And was greeted with their grace and kindness. And approached a pair of two older black womxn.
#Black folx movie
It was like that scene in a movie where everyone turns and stares. I also probably had a deer in headlights look.
We walked to the court, iPads in hand, sporting our “Black Futures Lab” shirts. Black Folx is a weekly conversational podcast where actor, writer, activist Brandon Kyle Goodman has one-on-one conversations with different Black folx of various identities about their life experiences and how being Black has shaped them. And an even smaller group of us went to the food court - which was maybe less of a “court,” and more so just a cafeteria with one place to order food from and ten or so people sitting about. Half of us were driven to the Mall West End in a predominantly black part of the city. But never as intensely as when we were trained on the census tool and then sent out into the city to begin engaging black folx with it. The nerves would flare up throughout the three days, though.
Did I deserve to be in that room? What I learned throughout the training, though, is that it was so much less about how many years of organizing I had on me and so much more about choosing to show up.
And struggling with feelings of insecurity and imposter syndrome. And because we recognized that we are all worthy of this space being made for us.īut, still, I was nervous. Maybe that’s what we all had in common, actually? We were there because black folx deserve this work. But with a perpetual desire to amplify the voices of black folx in this country. Students about to wrap up their undergraduate career. There were folx who had been organizing for decades. There were around thirty black organizers from all over the country, gathered in a hotel ballroom in Downtown Atlanta. The training was unlike anything that I had ever experienced. * Police Brutality Drove a Wedge Between Me and My Church (The Marshall Project): Bates, WEPOWER’s other Black Census Project field organizer and power-builder, facilitates outreach conversations with the Black Census Project. * Millennials Are Leaving Religion And Not Coming Back (FiveThirtyEight): /features/millen…oming-back/amp/ * Black Millennials May Be Leaving The Church, But Not The Faith truthbetold.news/2019/11/black-mi…t-not-the-faith/
#Black folx series
on his new series ‘The Black Church’ (PBS News Hour): * African-American Catholics concerned about youths leaving church news.nd.edu/news/african-americ…ths-leaving-church/ * Are black millennials being pushed out of the church? (The Washington Post): * Henry Louis Gates Jr. * Millennials aren’t skipping church, the Black Church is skipping us (Black Youth Project): /millennials-ar…s-skipping-us/ Public Becoming Less Religious: * Pew Research Center Religious Landscape Study (2012) – Racial and ethnic composition: * The Church’s Black Exodus (The Atlantic): /amp/article/616588/ * Pew Research Center Faith Among Black Americans study (2020) – Faith Among Black Americans: * Pew Research Center Religious Landscape Study (2014) – Members of the Historically Black Protestant Tradition: * Pew Research Center Religious Landscape Study (2014) – U.S.
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