| The National Institute for Restorative Justice "Educating for Advocacy" |
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| Education - Book Discussion Series |
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Imagining, Democracy, Justice: The Mind of Manning Marable A Three Book Discussion Series September 13—November 10, 2011 Tuesdays and Thursdays 6:00 - 8:30 PM Registration Required |
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"Without education, there is no hope for our people and without hope, our future is lost" - Charles Hamilton Houston |
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| Join The Drum Majors For Justice! |
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| Organizing A Movement, Struggling To Freedom The Legacies of Randolph, Houston, Marshall & Baker |
| A Three Book & Film Discussion Series April 10 - May 24, 2012 Tuesdays and Thursdays 6:00 - 8:30 PM Registration Required |
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| Kwame Malik Surrendered: The Rise Fall & Revelation of Kwame Kilpatrick Discussion & Signing Friday, February 10 2012 Click Here To View Kilpatrick Archive Page |
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| Shackled Minds: The Bondage of Black America A Six Book & Film Discussion Series October 26 - December 18, 2010 Tuesdays and Thursdays 6:00 - 8:30 PM Registration Required |
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| Resurrecting Leadership: America At The Crossroads Again! |
| Opening Convocation: Sunday, April 4, 2010 ~ 7 - 8 p.m. Series: April 6 - May 20, 2010 Tuesdays & Thursdays ~ 6:00 - 8:30 p.m. |
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| Zachery R. Williams, Ph.D. Book signing & Discussion Series IN SEARCH OF THE TALENTED TENTH: Howard University Public Intellectuals and the Dilemmas of Race, 1926-1970 February 2, 9, 16 & 23, 2010 Tuesdays ~ 6 - 8 p.m. |
National Institute For Restorative Justice will begin exploring legacies, leadership and organizational strategies of four legendary Americans: Asa Philip Randolph, Charles Hamilton Houston, Thurgood Marshall and Ella Baker. Three biographies of these leaders will serve as text for the seven-week series: A. Philip Randolph And The Struggle For Civil Rights by Conelius Bynum; Ella Baker & the Black Freedom Movement: A Radical Democratic Vision by Barbara Ransby; and Root And Branch: Charles Hamilton Houston, Thurgood Marshall and the Struggle To End Segregation by Rawn James, Jr. The text will be supplemented with film documentaries of the periods reflected. The series is free and open to the public. |
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| Collective Courage! A History of African American Cooperative Economic Thought and Practice |
| Critical 21st Century Conversations About Independent Economies in Black History Tuesdays & Thursdays March 3 - April 2, 2015 6:00 - 8:00 PM Discussion & Book Signing With Author Dr. Jessica Gordon Nembhard, PhD Saturday, February 28, 2015 ~ 2 - 4 p.m. |
| The New York Times 1619 Project Discussion Series Tuesdays & Thursdays January 28 through February 27, 2020 6 - 8 p.m. Kumbaya on the Shore 15226 Lakeshore Blvd Cleveland, Ohio 216.376.9692 |
and controversial 1619 Project, a special edition magazine and subsequent audio series on the historic landing and legacy of the first documented Africans in America. Operative word, documented. Inspired and introduced by NYT staff writer Nicole Hannah Jones, the Magazine includes 32 essays and musings researched and written by journalists and scholars covering topics from the historic Middle Passage to modern day Atlanta traffic jams. Beginning January 28 through the commonly designated Black History Month, the National Institute for Restorative Justice, in partnership Kumbaya on the Shore, will host a six-week discussion series on these writings under the guidance of justice advocates, researchers, educators and authors on the topics. Keeping true to our commitment of “Educating for Advocacy,” the 1619 discussion series is for the purpose of providing us with the knowledge, framework, inspiration and courage to educate and organize leadership for proactive and sustainable restorative justice engagement. The series is free and open to the public. To register email your name and contact information to rjusticeinc@aol.com or complete the form on our Justice Campaign page. Include "1619" in the comment box. |
| Tuesday, January 28, 2020 Orientation and distribution of reading materials NIRJ Board and study participants |
| Tuesday, February 11, 2020 The Idea of America by Nikole Hannah-Jones |
| Thursday, February 27, 2020 Why We Can’t Teach This by Nikita Stewart |
| Thursday, January 30, 2020 Slavery, Power and the Human Cost: 1455—1775 by Mary Elliott & Jazmine Hughes Sugar by Khalil Gibran Muhammad |
| Charles Bevel Board of Directors, NIRJ Performing Artist Civil & Human Rights Advocate MA Law Candidate, Cleveland State University |
| Tuesday, February 4, 2020 The Limits of Freedom: 1776—1808 by Mary Elliot & Jazmine Hughes |
Period Overview, Queen Nzinga, Cultivating
Wealth and Power, Race Encoded Into Law,
Continual Resistance, Means of Control,
Memory & Placemaking, The Deadly
Commodity (Sugar)
Wealth and Power, Race Encoded Into Law,
Continual Resistance, Means of Control,
Memory & Placemaking, The Deadly
Commodity (Sugar)
| Mittie Imani Jordan Founding Chair, NIRJ Owner, Madiya Ltd: Kumbaya on the Shore, New Myths & Legends Productions & Publications AB Smith College |
Period Overview, Describing the Depravity
of Slavery, She Sued for Her Freedom, God
Wouldn’t Want Segregated Sanctuaries, A
Powerful Letter, The Destructive Impact of
the Cotton Gin. Sidebar: Pecan Pioneer:
The Enslaved man Who Cultivated the South’
s Favorite Nut” by Tiya Miles
Poetry: Yusef Komunyakaa on Crispus
Attucks Poetry Guide: Gillian Johns (See
February 27
of Slavery, She Sued for Her Freedom, God
Wouldn’t Want Segregated Sanctuaries, A
Powerful Letter, The Destructive Impact of
the Cotton Gin. Sidebar: Pecan Pioneer:
The Enslaved man Who Cultivated the South’
s Favorite Nut” by Tiya Miles
Poetry: Yusef Komunyakaa on Crispus
Attucks Poetry Guide: Gillian Johns (See
February 27
| Thursday, February 6, 2020 A Slave Nation Fights for Freedom: 1809—1865 by Mary Elliot & Jasmine Hughes |
| Zachery R. Williams Vice Chair, NIRJ Scholar, Educator and Author BA Clemson University PhD Bowling Green State University |
| Period Overview, By Black People for Black People, A Woman Bequeathed , Generations of Enslavement, Liberation Theology, The Slave Patrols, Growing National Tension, Enlisting in a Moral Fight, Always on Your Person, One Family’s Ledger, Freedom Begins Sidebars: Gabriel Prosser’s Rebellion by Barry Jenkins, The Act Prohibiting Importation of Slaves by Jesmyn Ward, The Emancipation Proclamation by Darryl Pinckney, Louisiana’s Refusal by ZZ Packer Poetry: Reginald Dwayne Betts on the First Fugitive Salve Act, Tyehimba Jess on Negro Fort Poetry Guide: Gillian Johns |
| Dolores Person Lairet Board of Directors, NIRJ Retired Professor of French, Francophone, Caribbean & Russian Literature AB Wheaton College AM Middlebury College PhD Case Western Reserve University |
| Sidebar: Chained migration: How Slavery Made Its Way West by Tiya Miles |
| Thursday, February 13, 2020 Undemocratic Democracy by Janmelle Bouie |
Cedric Merlin Powell
National Board of
Advisors, NIRJ
Wyatt, Tarrant & Combs
Professor of Law,
University of Louisville
Brandeis School of Law
BA Oberlin College
JD New York University
School of Law
National Board of
Advisors, NIRJ
Wyatt, Tarrant & Combs
Professor of Law,
University of Louisville
Brandeis School of Law
BA Oberlin College
JD New York University
School of Law
Sidebar: Rainbow Coalition by Kiese
Laymon, Poetry: Jacqueline Woodson on
Isaac Woodward, Rita Dove on 16th Street
Baptist Church, Joshua Bennett on Black
Panthers, Poetry Guide: Gillian Johns
Laymon, Poetry: Jacqueline Woodson on
Isaac Woodward, Rita Dove on 16th Street
Baptist Church, Joshua Bennett on Black
Panthers, Poetry Guide: Gillian Johns
| Tuesday, February 18, 2020 American Popular Music by Wesley Morris Discussion Guide TBA |
| Thursday, February20, 2020 Capitalism by Matthew Desmond |
| James E. Page Board of Directors, NIRJ Community Activist, Astrologer, Philosopher, Yoruba Priest BA Cleveland State Univ |
Sidebars: Mortgaging the Future: The
North-South rift led to a piecemeal system
of bank regulation by Mehrsa Baradaran,
Good as Gold: In Lincoln’s wartime
“greenbacks,” a preview of the 20th-
century rise of flat currency by Mehrsa
Baradaran, Fabric of Modernity: How
Southern cotton became the cornerstone
of a new global commodities trade by
Mehrsa Baradaran, Municipal Bonds: How
Slavery Built Wall Street by Tyra Miles
The Wealth Gap by Trymaine Lee, Traffic
by Kevin M. Kruse
North-South rift led to a piecemeal system
of bank regulation by Mehrsa Baradaran,
Good as Gold: In Lincoln’s wartime
“greenbacks,” a preview of the 20th-
century rise of flat currency by Mehrsa
Baradaran, Fabric of Modernity: How
Southern cotton became the cornerstone
of a new global commodities trade by
Mehrsa Baradaran, Municipal Bonds: How
Slavery Built Wall Street by Tyra Miles
The Wealth Gap by Trymaine Lee, Traffic
by Kevin M. Kruse
| Tuesday, February 25, 2020 Mass Incarceration by Bryan Stevenson |
D.Anthony Everett
Lead Pastor, University
Circle UMC, Lecturer,
Christian Social Activist,
BS Paul Quinn College
MDiv Perkins School of
Theology
DMin Candidate United
Theological Seminary
Lead Pastor, University
Circle UMC, Lecturer,
Christian Social Activist,
BS Paul Quinn College
MDiv Perkins School of
Theology
DMin Candidate United
Theological Seminary
| Gillian Johns Board of Directors, NIRJ Associate Professor and Chair, Oberlin College Department of English BA Slippery Rock Univ MA PhD Temple Univ |
Auburn Shaeffer
Sandstrom
Adjunct Professor,
Cleve State University
Educator and Writer
BA University of Michigan
PhD Candidate,
Cleveland State University
Sandstrom
Adjunct Professor,
Cleve State University
Educator and Writer
BA University of Michigan
PhD Candidate,
Cleveland State University
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| Established as an outgrowth of Deuteronomy 8:3 Cafe Books & Music's Restorative Justice Initiative's three summits on the Thirteenth Amendment and Prison Industrial Complex, The National Institute for Restorative Justice incorporated in March 2011 for the purpose of educating for advocacy. The Institute's primary focus is on social, economic and legal justice. Since inception, the Initiative and subsequent Institute have hosted seven weekend summits and seven six-week book discussion series: 2004 Turning Our Dollars Into Sense 2005 13th Amendment & Prison Industrial Complex 2006 13th Amendment & Prison Industrial Complex 2007 The Cleveland Movement: The Spirit of Niagara 2010 Cleveland Movement: Precinct 101 2010 In Search of the Talented Tenth 2010 13th Amendment & Prison Industrial Complex 2010 Resurrecting Leadership 2010 Shackled Minds: The Continued Bondage of Black America 2011 Imagining, Democracy, Justice: The Mind of Manning Marable 2012 Organizing A Movement, Struggling to Freedom The Legacies of A. Philip Randolph, Charles Hamilton Houston, Thurgood Marshall & Ella Baker 2012 Backs, Brains, Bucks & Ballots: Crafting Indigenous Controlled Communities In the Age of Mass Black Urban Removal 2015Collective Courage: A History of African American Cooperative Economic Thought & Practice 2015—2016 13th Amendment Sesquicentennial Dialogue: The Criminalization of Black America 2020 The 1619 Project For more information about past series click on the archive links for each, below. |