I often feel I am trapped inside someone else's capability. Imagination gives us borders, gives us superiority, gives us race as an indicator of ability. Imagination turns Brown bombers into terrorists and white bombers into mentally ill victims. Imagination has people thinking they can go from being poor to a millionaire as part of a shared American dream. And that imagination is so respected that those who kill, based on an imagined, radicalized fear of Black people, are rarely held accountable. Trayvon Martin and Mike Brown and Renisha McBride and so many others are dead because, in some white imagination, they were dangerous. The Free Library of Philadelphia faces a moment of racial reckoning after the ouster of its longtime director by Sean Collins Walsh and Mensah Dean.Emergent Strategy: Organizing for Social Justice by Tiago Forte.Join Andrea Lemoins as she discusses how she used adrienne maree brown's Emergent Strategy principles to organize Black workers at the Free Library of Philadelphia to shift power in their institution. In order to address oppression and shift power in our memory institutions, we must first examine how we interact with and build our communities.
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