Black Solidarity Day: Social Justice Teach-In

[Michelle Bonati]

>
> Black Solidarity Day: Social Justice Teach-In
>
> November 7th will be the first year in which Black Solidarity Day
> <https://www.plattsburgh.edu/news/news-archive/black-solidarity-day-officially-added-to-suny-plattsburghs-academic-calendar.html> is
> part of the SUNY Plattsburgh Academic Calendar, held annually on the
> first Monday of November. In recognition of Black Solidarity Day, our
> campus will host a Social Justice Teach-In, featuring programming for the
> Plattsburgh community about racial justice, anti-racism, and social
> justice. The great news is that we have done this before--twice. This year
> we will follow the template created by the community members who helped to
> pull off our previous Teach-Ins. It will be a series of concurrent
> events, led by students, staff, faculty, and community groups, held all
> over campus, approximately timed to the usual Monday course times. We are
> still working on the details, but now is a good time to reach out to the
> campus.
>
> This is a day to meditate on the meaning of social justice and civic
> engagement in what could be a multi-racial democracy. That is one of the
> many things we promise our students.  Black Solidarity Day is meant "to
> highlight racial injustices, societal inequities, and to illuminate how
> Black voices are integral to American life
> <https://nyu-dss.github.io/black-solidarity-day/#:~:text=On%20Black%20Solidarity%20Day,%20Black,are%20integral%20to%20American%20life.>"
> and our college community. *We invite students, faculty, staff, and
> community members to contribute a teach-in session that speaks directly to
> the meaning of Black Solidarity Day and/or that engages with social
> justice, broadly defined. *
>
> A session could be a variety of things: a collection of readings, a few
> lectures, a workshop, an exercise, a performance, a discussion. Here is the program
> for 2019
> <https://drive.google.com/file/d/1bQn3swpRaCrhfqMBGFuMYvVj9hVt-SCv/view?usp=sharing> if
> you'd like to see what we have done in the past.  If you need more than 50
> minutes, that's fine as well.
>
> Please take some time to talk with your friends, mentors, and colleagues,
> and then propose a session.  And if you held a session in one of our
> previous Teach-Ins, please consider a repeat.  After all, we do have new
> students.
>
> Please complete this Google form:  https://forms.gle/MDiMgRZYGZTHHLAo9
>
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Michelle Bonati, PhD
Assistant Professor of Teacher Education, MSEd
State University of New York at Plattsburgh
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