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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Deborah Barfield Berry
USA TODAY - January 11, 2021
WASHINGTON – U.S. Rep. James Clyburn, D-S.C., wants a song about faith and resilience long revered in the Black community to become the national hymn and help unite the country after centuries of racial turmoil.
Clyburn, the House majority whip, plans to introduce a measure as early as this week that would make “Lift Every Voice and Sing,” known as the Black national anthem, the national hymn and give it a special place alongside the country’s anthem, "The Star-Spangled Banner."
“To make it a national hymn, I think, would be an act of bringing the country together. It would say to people, ‘You aren’t singing a separate national anthem, you are singing the country’s national hymn,’” said Clyburn, the highest-ranking Black American in Congress. “The gesture itself would be an act of healing. Everybody can identify with that song.”
TERESA CHAHINE
JULY 01, 2020
A history of discrimination and inequality has led to dramatic gaps in wealth, investment, and income between white communities and minority communities. Yale SOM’s Teresa Chahine and a panel of experts discussed how businesses, financial firms, and regular investors can make choices that empower local businesses and increase opportunity...
The City of New Haven Department of Arts Culture and Town Green Special Services District are seeking a New Haven- based Artist (s) to design temporary 2-dimensional artwork for display on windows of City Hall next to the Amistad Memorial at 165 Church Street (see website). Artwork should reflect the importance of black and brown lives, influences and culture on our New Haven communities.
Budget: $2500 for artist(s) and supplies
Deadlines
Work Sample Submission Deadline: July 7, 2020
Artist Selection Announcement: July 14, 2020
Artwork Production Deadline: August 4, 2020
Interested artists should submit 3 samples of artwork, contact information, and a brief description of the artwork they propose for transforming the windows around the memorial to kfutrell@newhavenct.gov by Friday, July 7, 2020.
Final Artwork Display Specifications
The windows are located on the ground level of City Hall and border the Amistad Memorial (see photo). Final artwork dimensions should be compatible with window measurements.:
(3) 66"w x 71"h
(1) 54"w x 82"h
(3) 54"w x 70"h
Questions should be directed to Kim Futrell, kfutrell@newhavenct.gov or 203-946-7172.
A volunteer holds a sticker to give to a voter at a polling place on Election Day, Nov. 3, 2020, in Stamford. Jessica Hill / Associated Press
A free two-day training program aimed at helping more people of color run for public office will be held virtually next month, a product of the Connecticut Conference of Municipalities and Campaign School at Yale University, according to a release.
https://www.nhregister.com/news/article/Free-training-program-aims-to-help-people-of-15903692.php?
I am not OK
I am tired, completely and utterly tired. No, actually I’m exhausted. This is something that a leader is not supposed to say; but it’s whatever. Let me explain. I am hosting a series of zoom meetings as part of my campaign for re-election to the U.S. House of Representatives. My district is a beautiful place with amazing people in northwestern Connecticut and includes large urban cities, affluent suburbs and small rural and farming communities. There are 41 cities and towns and I plan to host a series of listening session with the residents of each community. In this temporary Covid-19 reality we had to get creative about engagement. We are well into our schedule and are having great success...
U.S. Rep. Jahana Hayes, a Democrat, lives in Waterbury and represents Connecticut’s 5th Congressional District.
This essay was first published by Medium on Oct. 13, 2020.
When Kilynn Johnson walks out the door of the house her parents bought in 1972, where she grew up and lives to this day, she steps into the warm embrace of a community where neighbors feel more like kin. Her home sits across the street from Stinger Square Park, where Johnson passed long days of her childhood playing alongside her siblings and cousins and friends. But by age 8, diagnosed with asthma, she spent more time sitting on the sidelines, watching the other children tumble on playground equipment or rip and run through the park. Once in a while a neighbor, Ms. Sylvia or any number of Black mother figures whom Johnson and everyone knew never to call by just their first names, might come by and check on her. “You doing all right, Kilynn?” they would ask the quiet little girl...
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
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
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
