As Continuum celebrates Black History Month, we would like to highlight some of the pioneers who have made significant contributions to the field of mental health, tirelessly advocating on behalf of some of the most vulnerable amongst us. Click here to read and download the full poster: https://www.continuumct.org/newsItem/february-2022#1
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In honor of Women’s History Month, Continuum is highlighting some remarkable women whose accomplishments we hope will inspire you to dream big and fight for the less fortunate.
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Today we are celebrating and honoring Van Jones who is an American news commentator, author and a world-class change maker.
#NHHSCelebratesBHM #BHM #NewHaven #HealthyStart #Activist
Learn more: http://bit.ly/2HqAujM
Today we are celebrating and honoring Ashley Jackson who an activist, advocate, fiber artist and program management consultant. She served as the first Alabama State Director for the Human Rights Campaign.
#NHHSCelebratesBHM #BHM #NewHaven #HealthyStart #HumanRights #Activist
Learn more: http://bit.ly/38s8isv
Today we are celebrating and honoring, Shaun King, who is a husband, #father, #activist and journalist. He is also a columnist for The Intercept and the Writer-In-Residence at Harvard Law School’s Fair Punishment Project.
#NHHSCelebratesBHM #BHM #Activist
Learn more: http://bit.ly/2UIOQnq
Today we are celebrating and honoring Ava DuVernay, is a writer, producer, director, and distributor of independent film. One of her latest project that she wrote and directed is currently on Netflix. When They See Us, a series based on the Central Park Five, five teens that were falsely accused of an attack at Central Park.
#NHHSCelebratesBHM #BHM #NewHaven #HealthyStart #Activist
Learn more: http://bit.ly/2wRfHnf
Today we are celebrating and honoring Maya Wiley who is is a nationally renowned expert on #racial justice and #equity. She is currently the Senior Vice President for Social Justice at the New School University and the Henry Cohen Professor of Public and Urban Policy at The New School’s Milano School of Management, Policy & Environment.
#NHHSCelebratesBHM #BHM #NewHaven #Activist
Learn more: http://bit.ly/2VdINHt
Today we are #celebrating and #honoring, Bryan Stevenson, who is the founder and Executive Director of the #Equal Justice Initiative, a human #rights organization in Montgomery, Alabama
#NHHSCelebratesBHM #BHM #NewHaven #HealthyStart #EqualRightsJustice
To learn more about Mr. Stevenson: http://bit.ly/2OCYVhE
To read more on his bestselling book, Just Mercy: http://bit.ly/31zKXm0
How can it be that, in 2019, writer Ta-Nehisi Coates was forced to give testimony in front of the House Judiciary Committee that sounded like it could have been given in front of the Joint Committee on Reconstruction in 1866? How is it that, more than a century and a half after the end of the Civil War, a black man had to instruct members of the United States Congress on the rudiments of slavery and its legacies?
How can it be that, rather than participating in a national reckoning like those provided by South Africa's Truth and Reconciliation Commission, or Germany's many post-war acts of national self-reflection and atonement, America is barely humoring the idea of paying reparations to the descendants of former slaves?
Most importantly, why oh why are powerful white men still pretending to listen instead of saying what needs to be said? When will a white man sit where Coates sat yesterday and address black people in the manner he spoke to those white representatives, and by extension white America: without the buffer of mediating, academic language, bluntly, poetically, vividly, humanely and unforgivingly, eye-to-eye, person-to-person, unafraid of the truth?
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Today we are celebrating and honoring the late Elijah E. Cummings. He was a #civil rights #activist who served in the United States House of Representatives for Maryland.
#NHHSCelebratesBHM #BHM #NewHaven #HealthyStart #Activist
Learn more: http://bit.ly/2VvcoMH
Today we are celebrating and honoring Monica Simpson who is the Executive Director of SisterSong, an organization working on building an effective network of individuals and organizations to improve communities.
Learn more: http://bit.ly/38nBctP
Our democracy’s founding ideals were false when they were written. Black Americans have fought to make them true.
Today we are #celebrating and #honoring, Michelle Alexander, who is a highly acclaimed civil rights lawyer, advocate, legal scholar and author of The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness
#NHHSCelebratesBHM #BHM #NewHaven #HealthyStart #CivilRights
Learn more about Michelle: http://bit.ly/2SpYW9X
Watch her Ted talk on the future of race in America: http://bit.ly/2UxYTeR
Today we are honoring and celebrating Dr. Esmeralda Simmons, who was the Executive Director of the Center for Law and Social #Justice, a community-based legal institution, based at Medgar Evers College.
#NHHSCelebratesBHM #BHM #NewHaven #HealthyStart #Activist
Watch as Dr. Simmons was honored as back in 2014 during Women's History Month: http://bit.ly/2HZy0ZH
It is hard to make good decisions without good data. From the scale of nationwide efforts to improve education and healthcare to the day-to-day decisions faced by boards and staff of the smallest nonprofit organization, access to data that can be trusted to be true is critical. We trust those who collect our history and data—organize it and make it available—to do their jobs with integrity and a commitment to guarding its accuracy and completeness. We trust them to protect it from those who may have a reason to twist, hide, or destroy facts and stories they do not like...
Today we are #celebrating and #honoring Mari Copeny, who at only 12 years old is already an #activist fighting for the children in Flint, Michigan during the water crisis.
#NHHSCelebratesBHM #NewHaven #Flint #LittleMissFlint #BHM
Learn more about Mari at: http://bit.ly/2Ouc4tj
And watch her on Good Morning America: http://bit.ly/381VDMM
Today we are celebrating and honoring, Ta-Nehisi Coates who is the author of the #1 New York Times bestseller Between the World and Me, winner of the 2015 National Book Award for Nonfiction.
Learn more: http://bit.ly/39QVRXI
Today is the first day of February and New Haven Healthy Start will be celebrating and honoring black activists during Black History Month. #NHHSCelebratesBHM #BHM
Let's kick it off with learning about HRSA #Maternal and Child Health and the 101 #Healthy Start sites around this country.
Click here to learn more about HRSA: http://bit.ly/2UgHnvl
KATHERINE MCMAHON/ARTNEWS
Kaywin Feldman is director of the National Gallery of Art in Washington, D.C. When she assumed her post this spring, as the first woman to lead the institution, she followed a nearly three-decade stint by Earl “Rusty” Powell III as the leader of a museum established in 1937 with a donation by financier and art collector Andrew W. Mellon and subsequently supported by federal and private funds. Prior to the National Gallery, Feldman served as director of the Minneapolis Institute of Art, where she created a Center for Empathy and the Visual Arts and presented exhibitions such as “Art and Healing: In the Moment,” a group show in 2018 inspired by the police-shooting death of Philando Castile in Minnesota two years earlier. She is also a past president of the Association of Art Museum Directors and a past chair of the American Alliance of Museums.,,
Black women have made important contributions to the United States throughout its history, though they are not always recognized for their efforts. In the face of gender and racial bias, they have broken barriers, challenged the status quo, and fought for equal rights for all. Their accomplishments in politics, science, the arts, and other areas continue to impact society today... https://www.thoughtco.com/notable-african-american-women-4151777
