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SUMMARY:Discord and Harmony : The Struggle for Freedom in the USA Through Blues\, Jazz\, Soul\, and Hip-Hop
DESCRIPTION:This will be a look at-and a listen to-the role African American music has played in embodying and inspiring the ongoing struggle for freedom and full equality in the U.S.A. The session will be a mix of music video clips (Billie Holiday\, Nina Simone and Stevie Wonder\, among others) and informal conversation led by progressive musician and composer Dan Belmont\, and life-long grassroots organizer and leader Allen Cox.
URL:https://freedomfestivalusa.org/event/discord-and-harmony-the-struggle-for-freedom-in-the-usa-through-blues-jazz-soul-and-hip-hop-3/
LOCATION:online
CATEGORIES:Conversations,History,Music
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SUMMARY:Experience improvscience Community Office Hours
DESCRIPTION:Come play with us during improvscience Community Office Hours! The community office hours are held weekly for those who work and organize within and adjacent to Dr. Raquell Holmes and improvscience.  The  Zoom room is for people to work\, plan\, and create with others. \nIf you want to collaborate with friends on projects\, bounce ideas off one another\, or just be together\, that’s what we are here for. We make breakout rooms for these purposes. And\, w e make time and space for you. \nThis Freedom Festival events will provide a taste of what you can do every week with improvscience Community Office Hours.
URL:https://freedomfestivalusa.org/event/experience-an-improvscience-office-hours/
LOCATION:online
CATEGORIES:Conversations,Education,Health,Science,Wellbeing
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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:You haven’t missed it. Watch on YouTube. \nReading Excerpts from the Declaration of Independence and from Frederick Douglass \nWe invite you all 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. \n“The Declaration of Independence is one of America’s significant founding documents. On its face\, it is a declaration of war. A look at the structure of the document\, it 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 this\, the document 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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