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11/20/2024

"Papyrus came out of a conscious community trying to transform themselves with the new knowledge of history and culture that has been hidden, or discredited, or just plain old missing from our experience here in the United States. We wanted to make sure our children had the knowledge of where we come from, and our history of culture. And so from there was a need saying, well, what kind of materials are we going to use to teach our children?"...

“Papyrus came out of a conscious community trying to transform themselves with the new knowledge of history and culture that has been hidden, or discredited, or just plain old missing from ou…

10/18/2024

Today was the day! TCFF! Red carpet! Such fun.

10/08/2024

Twin Cities Film Festival alert! I want to personally invite you to the premier of Separate Not Equal: Minnesota’s Integration Story. The documentary was produced by MPS Equity and School Climate in partnership with idream.tv. The film has been selected for the Twin Cities Film

Thanks to sponsorships, tickets for the film are FREE of charge, but reservations are needed! There will be a Q+A following the film and photo opportunity for attendees to meet the cast.

Ticket Reservation: The Minnesota Integration Story Tickets, Fri, Oct 18, 2024 at 2:00 PM | Eventbrite

09/20/2024

"What I want people, maybe beyond anything, to understand is that we, like poems, are capable of such complex juxtaposition and complication in our feelings towards things... And I know in an anti-Black world that is so good at hating us that there is a Black-loving world out there ... and in that Black-loving world that we can manifest everywhere will be a world of great, great hope and possibility where tomorrow is nourished."...

This is a book of awakening out of violence, guilt, shame, and critical pessimism to wonder and imagine how we can strive toward a new existence in a world that seems to be dissolving into desolate futures.

09/10/2024

Actors?

08/08/2024

This just in ...

Taiyon J. Coleman, Traveling Without Moving: Essays from a Black Woman in America

07/05/2024

Sarai Johnson's debut novel, Grown Women, hits the stands on Tuesday. Great Summer read!

“What I want readers to think of when they see grown women is a process of achieving, it’s never really achieved.” -Sarai Johnson Tracing four generations of remarkable Black wome…

06/01/2024

Enjoy Episode 3 of Black Market Reads with Dr. Rachel R. Hardeman.

“They’re not going to come for you unless you’re on to something.” – Dr. Rachel Hardeman In this episode of Black Market Reads: On Health, Lissa and Bukata talk with Dr. Rachel Ha…

05/25/2024

Ethel Ray Nance was born and raised in Duluth, Minnesota, where her family lived a life filled with marginalization, prejudice, and racism. She experienced constant comparison to whiteness—a place that held no space for her Black Southern father, William Henry Ray, or her white Swedish mother, Inga Ray. Ethel Ray: Living in the White, Gray, and Black is a biography and coming-of-age story of Ethel and of her family’s life before, during, and after the horrific lynching of three young Black circus workers—Elias Clayton, Elmer Jackson, and Isaac McGhie—on June 15, 1920....

Ethel Ray Nance was born and raised in Duluth, Minnesota, where her family lived a life filled with marginalization, prejudice, and racism. She experienced constant comparison to whiteness—a place …

05/15/2024

Calling all TALENT! Hey friends, iDream.tv is filming a training series for WIC. We need a few diverse families with child(ren) ages 0-5. Especially needing Hmong, Somali, Vietnamese or Afgan moms with cute babies or toddlers. We're filming Friday afternoon May 17 and Sunday May 19 at a grocery store in St Paul. Generous stipend for a couple hours of "shopping" fun. Please contact me asap if you or friends are interested.

05/05/2024

"If we didn't have health inequities any longer, if everybody were getting the same amount of care, we'd still need to know this history, but it wouldn't be as urgent. I think the fact that Black women still experience disproportionately higher rates of maternal morbidity is relevant. We need to know why that is. We need to know why Black folks have higher incidence of heart disease, why Black people don't get good health care, even when they have health insurance, even when they are prosperous people."...

“If we didn’t have health inequities any longer, if everybody were getting the same amount of care, we’d still need to know this history, but it wouldn’t be as urgent. I thi…

03/26/2024

"This has to be an all hands on deck situation where we say, we are going to, together, as a country, solve this problem. I think that might be magical thinking in this world we're in right now, but I do see some steps ahead.." Linda Villarosa In this inaugural episode of Black Market Reads: On Health, Lissa introduces her series co-host Bukata Hayes, Vice President and Chief Equity Officer at Blue Cross Blue Shield of Minnesota....

In this Episode of Black MarketReads podcast Lissa Jones andBukata Hayes talk with Pulitzer Prize Finalist author Linda Villarosa about her book Under The Skin The Hidden Toll of Racism on Health in America

03/12/2024

"Repositioning ourselves to stories provides encouragement, it fortifies us, it edifies us, and it compels us to live out the resilience, the excellence of a people." Bukata Hayes LISTEN In this episode Lissa welcomes co-host Bukata Hayes as they explore the power of storytelling and the nourishment of soulful food with author Rose McGee. ROSE MCGEE, founder of Sweet Potato Comfort Pie, travels…...

“Repositioning ourselves to storiesprovides encouragement, it fortifies us, it edifies us, and it compels us to live out the resilience, the excellence of a people.”Bukata Hayes LISTEN …

03/12/2024

Givens Foundation | Black Market Reads : Episode 82 - Rose McGee, Can't Nobody Make a SweetPotato Pie Like Our Mama

In this episode Lissa welcomes co-host Bukata Hayes as they explore the power of storytelling and the nourishment of soulful food with author Rose McGee. ROSE MCGEE, founder of Sweet Potato Comfort Pie, travels across the United States to deliver pies and nurture relationships. She was featured in t...

02/28/2024

“If we are not maladjusted to this situation, something is wrong with us.” Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. The Unteachables (University of Minnesota Press 2023) examines the overrepresentation of Black students in special education over the course of the twentieth century. Excavating the deep-seated racism embedded in both the public school system and public policy, Mayes explores the discriminatory labeling of Black students, and how it indelibly contributed to special education disproportionality, to student discipline and push-out practices, and to the school-to-prison pipeline....

“If we are not maladjusted to this situation, something is wrong with us.” Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. The Unteachables (University of Minnesota Press 2023) examines the overrepresentation of …

02/28/2024

Givens Foundation | Black Market Reads : Episode 81- Dr.Keith Mayes, The Unteachables

How special education used disability labels to marginalize Black students in public schools The Unteachables examines the overrepresentation of Black students in special education over the course of the twentieth century. Excavating the deep-seated racism embedded in both the public school system ...

02/13/2024

Every month is Black History Month at Black Market Reads. Aluta continua - the struggle continues.

” Invisibility is one of racism’s strongest tools. Racism is most powerful when we don’t see it.” Dr. Rob Eschmann From cell phone footage of police killing unarmed Black people t…