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“Banished” Documentary and Discussion
First Church in Jamaica Plain, Unitarian Universalist 6 Eliot St, Jamaica Plain, MA From the 1860s to the 1920s, dozens of towns and counties across America violently expelled entire African American...
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“A Dream in Doubt” Documentary Screening
It was the first hate-based murder in the wake of September 11, 2001–one of thousands of reported and unreported hate crimes in the years that followed. The victim: a turbaned Sikh man in Mesa,...
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Hillary Jordan, Author of “MUDBOUND” (Reading)
“This is storytelling at the height of its powers: the ache of wrongs not yet made right, the fierce attendance of history made as real as rain, as true as this minute. Hillary Jordan writes with...
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A Report from New Orleans: 3 Years Later
“14 Hands, 7 Toolbelts, and 1 New Orleans Family: A Report Back from Post-Katrina Louisiana” Did you know that, since Hurricane Katrina, Boston-area building trades people have made several trips to...
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“There Are No Illegal People” with photojournalist David Bacon
Illegal People: How Globalization Creates Migration and Criminalizes Immigrants, with David Bacon “David Bacon is the conscience of American journalism; an extraordinary social documentarist in the...
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“Chicago 10″ Film and Discussion
CHICAGO 10 is dramatic documentary that explores the build-up and unraveling of the 1968 Chicago Conspiracy Trial with Abby Hoffman, Tom Hayden, Bobbie Seale and Dave Dellinger. A parable of hope,...
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“The Dhamma Brothers” Film and Discussion
THE DHAMMA BROTHERS tells a dramatic tale of human potential and transformation as it closely follows and documents the stories of the prison inmates at Donaldson Correction Facility who enter into...
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Closing the Racial Wealth Divide
with Meizhu Lui, Dedrick Muhammad and Amaad Rivera Three national experts join us to both celebrate the election of Barack Obama and discuss the persistent disparities of wealth that still exist along...
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Celebrating 80 years of progressive organizing with the Highlander Center
Martin Luther King, Pete Seeger, Charis Horton, Rosa Parks, and Ralph Abernathy at Highlander. (photo source: http://highlandercenter.org/media/timeline/) Celebrating 80 Years of Civil Rights with the...
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“Drown” with Pulitzer-Prize winner Junot Diaz
Pulitzer Prize winner Junot Díaz, author of “Drown” Author talk exploring the youth immigrant experience through short fiction In partnership with JP Reads, this is the final installment of our Fall...
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Youth Held at the Border: Immigration, Education, & the Politics of Inclusion
Photo Exhibit featuring students from Boston International High School & Book talk with Dr. Leigh Patel on Capitalism, Race and Immigration. In partnership with JP First Thursdays and JP Reads,...
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Chris Crass: Toward Collective Liberation
Anti-Racist Organizing, Feminist Praxis, and Movement Building Strategy Wednesday, April 16th, 7pm-8:30pm First Church JP, 6 Eliot St (map) RSVP on Facebook or by email Join longtime social justice...
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Jobs not Jails: End Mass Incarceration and Fund Job Creation
Thursday, April 3rd, 7pm-8:30pm First Church JP, 6 Eliot St (map) RSVP on Facebook The U.S. locks up a higher percentage of its population than any other nation in the world. In Massachusetts, the...
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State of Our Neighborhood 2014
4th Annual State of our Neighborhood Forum A Community Conversation about Racial Justice and Equity Thursday, February 27th, 6-9pm Kennedy Elementary School, Hyde Square JP (map) RSVP on Facebook or...
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