The Juxtaposition

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Issues affecting the Black folks and Black folks effecting change

Programs in this Series

Format: 2024-04-29
Format: 2024-04-29
TBD May - 05/08/2024
From Mark Hughes:   For more information visit: VTRacialJusticeAlliance.org
Third Reconstruction - 04/10/2024
From Mark Hughes: Some say that the second reconstruction occurred after the civil rights movement. Are we in the middle of the third one? Hosted by Rev. Mark Hughes. For more information visit: VTRacialJusticeAlliance.org
Fall Back - Go Deep - 03/13/2024
From Mark Hughes: If the Legislative Biennium was a football game, you could say that we are going into the 4th quarter right now. So if our team is Racial Equity and Justice (RE&J) it's not looking like we winning? Why is it that the team...
Backwards Day! - 02/14/2024
From Mark Hughes: In 1868, the Fourteenth Amendment of the U.S. constitution, the second reconstruction amendment, was created to provide citizenship, equal protection, due process, and certain privileges and immunities for the formerly enslaved....
Demographics - 01/10/2024
From Mark Hughes: Host Rev. Mark Hughes, Executive Director of the Vermont Racial Justice Alliance, discusses Demographics.  Demographics is defined as “statistical data relating to the population and particular groups within it" (...
Trouble On All Sides - Where Is Palestine? - 11/08/2023
From Mark Hughes: Host Rev. Mark Hughes, Executive Director of the Vermont Racial Justice Alliance, is joined by Wafic Faour, from Vermonters for Justice in Palestine, to discuss the current situation in Gaza and beyond and the broader...
All Systems Go - 10/11/2023
From Mark Hughes: Host Rev. Mark Hughes, Director of the Vermont Racial Justice Alliance, discusses issues affecting Black Folks and Black Folks effecting change. There is a matter that should all be deeply concerning to all Vermonts and we...
Mental Health and the Public Health Emergency - 09/13/2023
From Mark Hughes: Host Rev. Mark Hughes, Director of the Vermont Racial Justice Alliance, discusses mental health and the public health emergency around racism. For more information visit: VTRacialJusticeAlliance.org
First African Landing Day 2023 - 08/09/2023
From Mark Hughes: Host Rev. Mark Hughes, Director of the Vermont Racial Justice Alliance, chats with Aidan Argraves, VRJA Intern, about First African Landing Day and the upcoming event happening on August 26 at the Intervale.  For more...
Equal Protection: Diversity or Justice? - 07/12/2023
From Mark Hughes: Host Rev. Mark Hughes is joined by guests Christine Longmore-Hughes, Director of the Richard Kemp Center, and Decon Roy V. Hill II, RJA BoD, about issues affecting the Black folks and Black folks effecting change. Both the majority...
Juneteenth Edition - 06/14/2023
From Mark Hughes: Discussing Juneteenth, its meaning, history and future. Hosted by Reverend Mark Hughes, with guests Deacon Roy V. Hill, Board of Directors at the Vermont Racial Justice Alliance, and Vincent Mitchell, Program Director and Youth...
Legacy-makers - 05/10/2023
From Mark Hughes: Systemic racism adversely impacts the health and wellness of Black folks, places at risk our economic development and the social health and wellness of everyone, and threatens our democracy. The Richard Kemp Center was created to...
Not Your Normal Emergency: Racism - 04/12/2023
From Mark Hughes: Rev Mark Hughes, Executive Director of the Vermont Racial Justice Alliance and Chair of the Vermont Health Equity Advisory Commission talks about the ending of the national (and state) health emergencies and ponders where this...
Repairing the Damage - 03/08/2023
From Mark Hughes: We're working on all levels to address the impact of systemic racism. The generational racial wealth gap is at an all time high. How are we repairing the damage? 
Do The Work - 02/08/2023
Mark Hughes discusses doing the work around systemic racism facing the nation.

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