Black Solidarity Day: Social Justice Teach In

[Michelle Bonati]

Black Solidarity Day: Social Justice Teach-In
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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.  It will
be a series of concurrent events, led by students, staff, faculty, and
community groups, held all over campus.

This is a day to meditate on the meaning of social justice and civic
engagement in what could be a multi-racial democracy. 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 talk with your friends, mentors, and colleagues, and then propose a
session. Student-led sessions are welcome! *The deadline for proposals is
September 30th.*

*Please complete this Google form:  https://forms.gle/MDiMgRZYGZTHHLAo9
<https://forms.gle/MDiMgRZYGZTHHLAo9>* or scan the QR code in the flyer
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Michelle Bonati, PhD
Assistant Professor of Teacher Education, MSEd
State University of New York at Plattsburgh
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