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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