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LEWISTON YWCA Central Maine will join YWCAs nationwide in launching the 21-Day Racial Equity and Social Justice Challenge on Monday, March 1, as part of a national movement to engage communities in anti-racist work.
Participants will receive a daily email directing them to three or four curated activities such as reading an article, listening to a podcast, watching a video or reflecting on their personal experiences. Each activity is designed to foster greater understanding and awareness, and challenge participants to confront their own understandings and take action toward the advancement of racial equity.
Taking part in an activity helps participants discover how racial inequity and social injustice impact the community, connect with others, and identify ways to dismantle racism and other forms of discrimination. The challenge will begin March 1 and continue Monday to Friday, through Monday, March 29. All content is newly curated by YWCA for this year to include
YWCA of Van Wert County to launch 21-Day Racial Equity and Social Justice Challenge
Information submitted Saturday, February 20, 2021 12:00 AM
VAN WERT – YWCA of Van Wert County will be launching a 21 Day Racial
Equity and Social Justice Challenge on April 1, 2021, as part of a
national movement to engage communities in anti-racist work.
Participants
will receive a daily email directing them to 3-4 curated activities
such as reading an article, listening to a podcast, watching a video, or
reflecting on their own personal experiences. Each activity is designed
to foster greater understanding and awareness and challenge
participants to confront their own understandings and to take action
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Aquinnah: Leveling the Playing Field Kyra Steck
The snow is coming down fast and heavy. It is a wet snow with large flakes, there is wind too, as there frequently is here. It feels like a true winter when it snows. Living here I’ve learned to mark the winter passing in ways other than snowfall, as it doesn’t happen that regularly. The ways I mark are usually events: Berta and Vern’s Christmas party, people jumping in the ocean on New Year’s Day, the Chilmark School fundraiser/concert, the mass Exodus of February break, the M.V. Film Festival. Since last March most of those events have been cancelled. So now, I look out my window and watch the light change, a little more allotted every day, and today I see the snow, still falling as if it will never stop.
The Harford County school system is working toward greater racial equity for its students of color and ensuring that teachers, staff and administrators are culturally proficient in working with students of all backgrounds. Some members of the community believe the school system should be doing even more, however, to reverse what they describe as years of inequities that have left students of color behind their peers and made it difficult for HCPS staffers of color to attain leadership positions in schools.