Hello and Happy National Hispanic/Latinx Heritage Month from Day Families Organizing for Racial Justice (FORJ). Welcome back to school & to this first installment of the Day FORJ newsletter. We are excited about how many families are already expressing interest in Day FORJ. We know you’re inundated with emails and we hope our monthly Day FORJ newsletter will provide you with a variety of meaningful, educational, and entertaining experiences for you and your family to LISTEN, DO, READ, & WATCH!
We hope you’ll join us for a Parent Mixer at Da LaPosta right after Day Back-to-School night on Wednesday, September 21!
For those new to Newton or new to FORJ, FORJ is a group of diverse families helping our children learn about issues of power and inequality and how to stand up for racial justice. We seek to generate understanding and curiosity about the differences in our society, and to work together towards racial equity. We strive to achieve safe and welcoming environments that enhance the well-being of all people. We promote healing and connection between individuals and communities. We speak out against injustice, support our kids to be upstanders, and take action to address bias and inequity.
If you are interested in getting involved with Day FORJ to help build an anti-racist community or if you’d like publicize any future events, recommend videos, movies, podcasts, or books, please email forj.faday@gmail.com.
To receive the monthly, district-wide, FORJ email that includes information about lectures on race and diversity, discussion groups, community events, and Newton Public Schools updates, please email forjnewton@gmail.com.
-Your Day FORJ Committee
LISTEN:
Tamarindo Podcast: a Latinx empowerment podcast discusses politics and culture along with well-being and self-love practices hosted by Brenda Gonzalez and Ana Sheila Victorino. Listen in for insightful conversations on race, gender, representation, and life with the mission of using laughter and conversation to inform, inspire and positively impact the Latinx community.
DO:
Wednesday, September 21, 8:30-9:30 pm, after Day Back-to-School night: Day FORJ Parent Mixer! Come to hang out, learn more, or get more involved! Meet us at the bar at Da LaPosta, 825 Washington Street in Newtonville.
Now Through September 24: Twilight: Los Angeles 1992 by Anna Deavere Smith. American Repertory Theater, 64 Brattle Street, Cambridge. Playwright, actor, and scholar Anna Deavere Smith dissects the civil unrest in L.A. following police officers’ acquittal in Rodney King’s police brutality case using interviews with more than 350 Los Angelinos. Her Tony Award-nominated, Obie Award-winning exploration reveals the fault lines that set the city ablaze. Purchase Tickets Here.
Thursday, September 29, 7:00 pm: The Emancipator: Book Talk Event with Historians Peniel Joseph and Ibram X. Kendi at the Howard Thurman Center for Common Ground, 808 Commonwealth Ave, Brookline. Acclaimed historians Ibram X. Kendi and Peniel Joseph will join in conversation at a live event, "On Reckonings, Reimagining, and The Third Reconstruction." This free event will focus on Joseph's latest work, "The Third Reconstruction: America's Struggle for Racial Justice in the Twenty-First Century." Kendi and Joseph will explore key learnings from past movements, and how this moment in time may provide an opportunity to achieve Black dignity and full citizenship at long last. RSVP Here.
READ:
WATCH: So many fantastic films!
11 Latinx Films to Stream in Honor of Hispanic Heritage Month
Seattle Public Library: Films for Hispanic Heritage Month
