Ideas for Ways to Observe Juneteenth
READ OR LISTEN
The NY Times 1619 Project (also a podcast)
Many more ideas here.
YOUTH + FAMILIES
Watch a Black history movie that tackles the topic of racism in our country. Some ideas here.
Read and discuss Ibram X. Kendi’s Stamped: Racism, Antiracism, and You with other members of Hingham. Sign up here. Books will be provided.
Family Exercise: Do you know what a Microaggression is? Check out this art project from 2013. Ask the members of your family to write a list of 5 microaggressions they may have thought or said before to a POC and discuss together.
REFLECT +
Unpacking the Invisible Knapsack
Patronize Black-owned businesses, including Hingham’s Intrinsic Provisions
Read this article and discuss with work colleagues
Take the 21 Day Racial Equity Challenge
Talk! If you feel you already understand this subject pretty well, please start dialogues with friends who may not totally understand BLM and other issues of racial justice. You don’t know what you don’t know. Validate without justifying.
GIVE
Equal Justice Initiative
The Bail Project
Color of Change
NAACP Boston