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SUMMARY:"Damn Yankee"  Storytelling to Confront Slave-Owning Family History
DESCRIPTION:Participants are invited to share stories of confronting slavery in their own families. The goal is to provide a safe\, unrecorded space where people can discuss the cultural norms passed down through generations that keep us from being free of our histories. \nHost\, Dr. Laura Peticolas\, will provide her own stories of her slave-owning ancestors and the impact on her parents and herself. Laura will also share the work she has done to be free from these generational biases toward white and black people. Art\, music\, poetry will be offered to build our stories together. \nThis will be a 90 minute session. July 2 from 11:30am PDT to 1pm PDT.
URL:https://freedomfestivalusa.org/event/damn-yankee-storytelling-to-confront-slave-owning-family-history/
LOCATION:online
CATEGORIES:Conversations,History,Kids & Family
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ORGANIZER;CN="Laura Peticolas":MAILTO:Lmpeticolas@sonic.net
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SUMMARY:What to Us is the Fourth of July?
DESCRIPTION:Reading Excerpts from the Declaration of Independence and from Frederick Douglass \nWe invite you to join us at the Freedom Festival for a collective reading of excerpts from both the Declaration of Independence and Fredrick Douglass’s speech “What to a slave is the Fourth of July?” We’ll explore in conversation the relationship between these documents and freedom. Collectively\, we can create together our meaning of freedom and the Fourth of July. \nThe Declaration of Independence is one of America’s significant founding documents. On its face\, it is a declaration of war. The structure of the document follows the archetype of 18th century enlightenment thinking\, laying out fundamental principles drawn from the laws of nature and deriving conclusions based on these principles. But over all the Declaration of Independence lays out the values that the founders considered to be fundamental to the creation of a government\, and though imperfect\, the values for which the country should continuously strive. \n72 years later\, Frederick Douglass was asked to deliver an Independence Day address to the Rochesters Ladies’ Anti-Slavery Society. The address\, entitled “What to the Slave Is the Fourth of July?” is a lament of the celebration of independence while so many in the US were enslaved. In contrast to the appeal to logic of the Declaration of Independence which strives for lofty goals\, Douglass’s address points out the hypocrisy inherent in the invitation and national celebration. Even so\, Douglass ends his speech “drawing encouragement from the Declaration of Independence [and] the great principles it contains”. \nNick Gross\n 
URL:https://freedomfestivalusa.org/event/what-to-us-is-the-forth-of-july-reading-excerpts-from-the-declaration-of-independence-and-from-frederick-douglass/
LOCATION:online
CATEGORIES:Conversations,History
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ORGANIZER;CN="Nick Gross":MAILTO:gross@bu.edu
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SUMMARY:The HEARTbeat of Freedom
DESCRIPTION:The HEARTbeat of Freedom is based on the famous Fourth of July speech by Frederick Douglass delivered on July 5\, 1852. We will present three different renditions of an excerpt from this speech. You will HEAR with your EAR this operatic ART and I know it will touch your HEART. \nWe will begin with the opera\, “Frederick Douglass” Opera was composed by Dorothy Rudd Moore\, and performed by Opera Ebony in 1994\, featuring Kermit Moore on first cello. It premiered 1985 at the City College of New York. \nFollowing this performance will be another ARTistic expression of Douglass’s speech through the contemporary ART of HIP HOP. \nLastly\, you will HEAR this speech through the eyes and HEART of a woman. \nThroughout the presentations\, we will invite comments and discussion from the audience.  \nHosts: \nRachelle Moore\, Licensed Social Worker and Psychotherapist in the Atlanta Area\n  \nEnid Pickett\, poet\, writer\, and teacher.\n 
URL:https://freedomfestivalusa.org/event/the-heart-beat-of-freedom/
CATEGORIES:Conversations,Education,History,Performing Arts
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