Common Ground @CommonGroundMem
Conversations on Race + Communities in Action commongroundmemphis.org Memphis, TN Joined September 2009-
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Have you heard? Rev. Barber is reviving the Poor People's Campaign. Sign up here: fb.me/8F9Mpk0Bf
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Remembering Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. - the radical and the revolutionary - on this national holiday. fb.me/3Cv6OSJeN
"But the multiracial tableau obscures a stark racial divide: The union’s white members have received more work... fb.me/4ib6aWufb
"As long as our community is unable to uncouple race and poverty, there will be wide inequality and a tale of two... fb.me/Mv05Y5jL
Congratulations to Common Ground founder Wendi Thomas, as she begins her year as a Nieman Foundation Fellow at... fb.me/7rkV1A9Ln
D'Army Bailey on the Civil Rights Museum: “It’s living history, and I don’t see it as the scene of a defeat or... fb.me/6Gjylvj7L
We do a race-focused version of this exercise in Common Ground. It's very powerful. fb.me/3ZgtMKovN
What's next? Emily Yellin sums up the unconsciousness born of white privilege that short circuits every... fb.me/7zlJOkwkB
History Returns to Charleston - The New Yorker... fb.me/4qBX46ATk
Remembering the victims of Wednesday's mass shooting at a Charleston, S.C. church. fb.me/7m3tHObrd
Key to Memphis' Future? Claiming Diversity as an Asset "As the first majority African-American MSA with more... fb.me/7IyCE4OPA
Alice Goffman explores the real life effects of the prison pipeline in this eye-opening TED talk. Of young men of... fb.me/1E8kns1f1
"Biases are the stories we make up about people before we know who they are." Verna Myers challenges to move... fb.me/3yFvbU6nt
"Biases are the stories we make up about people before we know who they are." Verna Myers challenges to move... fb.me/4BdMojYgi
Malcolm X: 50 Years Later Join the National Civil Rights Museum on Saturday, May 23, as we mark the 90th... fb.me/1MMSJfIeZ
Uh oh! The danger of stereotypes. fb.me/6BgNkoe8r
Did the Holly Springs Pilgrimage this past weekend. Spent all my time "behind the big house" instead of inside... fb.me/3Bl7PRI1u
Happy Volunteer Week to the facilitators and operations committee that make Common Ground possible! Thank you! wp.me/p5WZbw-G
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