Coronavirus (COVID-19) is rapidly changing life in New York City. To help connect community members in need with food resources during this challenging time, the Hunter College NYC Food Policy Center is currently creating Coronavirus NYC Food Resource Guides for each NYC neighborhood.
NYC Food resource guide: Hunter College NYC Food Resource center
While our doors may be closed for the time being, we remain dedicated to bringing you stories and experiences of history in Brooklyn and beyond. Explore this selection of past programs, online exhibitions, resources, and more to bring Brooklyn's history into your home
Brooklyn History at Home
Your virtual commute to the people, places, and things that make NYC great. We know you miss being out and about in our great metropolis, New York City. So do we. We may not be able to hop on the subway and visit our favorite neighborhoods right now, but we’re here for you online with an unlimited pass to the Museum’s offerings.
Source: https://www.mcny.org/exhibition/mcny-unlimited
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We've curated this selection of highlights from Public Programs at the Museum that brings the best of New York to you. MCNY Live features conversations with artists, authors, politicians, and more who speak about their experiences as New Yorkers. Topics range from aspects of everyday life to addressing the issues that are shaping the city's future.
Source: https://www.mcny.org/mcny-live
MCNY Unlimited
& MCNY LIVE
The mission of the Philadelphia Community Bail Fund is to end cash bail in Philadelphia. Until that day comes, we post bail for residents of Philadelphia who cannot afford to pay for their freedom. We work to bring to light the inequities of the use of cash bail in Philadelphia and advocate for the abolition of bail and pretrial detention in our city.
Source: https://www.phillybailout.com/
Philadelphia Community Bail Fund
As the world navigates a global pandemic and economic upheaval, SPI Online 2020 will provide a space to learn from one another, to connect and encourage one another, and time to collectively envision the work now and in the coming months as we respond to this time of crisis and loss, disruption and opportunity. May we move through this time with grace, humility and a renewed commitment to embodying systems and relationships that are rooted in justice and an active peace for all.
Source: https://emu.edu/spi/
Summer Peacebuilding Institute Online 2020
The Ida B. Wells Society for Investigative Reporting represents a new take on a familiar mission.We are a news trade organization with a mission of increasing the ranks, retention and profile of reporters and editors of color in the field of investigative reporting.
Source: https://idabwellssociety.org/
The Ida B. Wells Society For Investigative Reporting
There were many different factors that led to the effectiveness of African American slave medicine during the early to mid- nineteenth century United States, or the antebellum period. African slaves who were taken away from their native lands carried with them their own native medical practices and knowledge. Their pre- established medical knowledge would grow over time as countless generations of African Americans would soon be exposed to the medical cultures of both Native Americans and white European immigrants. The function slave-practiced medicine would play in society during this time period would also be shaped by the new complex social conditions of slaver
Source: https://vc.bridgew.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1376&context=undergrad_rev
African American Slave Medicine of the 19th Century
Kizzmekia Corbett is a research fellow at the NIH Vaccine Research Center leads research team in developing a cure for COVID-19.
Black Woman Leading the Research Team Working to Develop a Vaccine for Coronavirus
Lessons about coronavirus and climate change – Science matters. How we treat the natural world affects our wellbeing and more.
Source: https://www.earthday.org/6-lessons-coronavirus-can-teach-us-about-climate-change/
Six Lessons Coronavirus Can Teach Us About Climate Change
Actions for the planet during a pandemic: Eat and cook more plant-based meals and compost; make disinfectants; build your immune system, and more recipes –
Source: https://www.earthday.org/11-actions-for-the-planet-during-a-pandemic/
Eleven Actions for the Planet During a Pandemic
A traditional Chinese medicine practitioner, a Chinese chef and a nutritionist talk about what to eat to boost immunity against flu and other viruses. From double-boiled soup with hairy fig and immunity-boosting herbal formulas to beef with black garlic, here are step-by-step instructions on making them
Global Foods to Boost Immunity
Twenty-two experts and advocates talk about the struggle for racial justice in the face of rising temperatures.
Source: https://nexusmedianews.com/meet-the-new-generation-of-black-climate-leaders-337c9e077abb
Black Climate Change Activism
The Laundromat Project
The Laundromat Project advances artists and neighbors as change agents in their own communities.
We envision a world in which artists and neighbors in communities of color work together to unleash the power of creativity to transform lives.
We make sustained investments in growing a community of multiracial, multigenerational, and multidisciplinary artists and neighbors committed to societal change by supporting their artmaking, community building, and leadership development.
Our goal is to introduce a cohort of diverse writers to future generations – contemporary authors who are non-binary, queer, trans, and disabled. To address inequalities and improve communities through reading and reflecting on the works of Black women.
Well-Read Black Girl
Museum Hue is an arts platform for people of color. We craft a welcoming, creative environment that encourages exploration, investigation, collaboration, imagination, and creation in museums throughout major cities, countrysides, and everywhere in between. Our vast cultural experiences paints a larger portrait of our transnational, cosmopolitan community across the globe. We curate Hueseum tours and Huenity mixers that provide authentic participation in various forms of expression as well as disrupts the homogeneity of the mainstream art world. Museum Hue is recognized as a cultural movement and structural intervention within the creative ecosystem.
Source: https://www.museumhue.com/
Museum Hue- Culturally Specific Museums by POC
Lift Every Voice Grant
Lift Every Voice is a national public humanities program dedicated to enhancing appreciation of the African American poetic tradition and its imaginative range and richness. Its principal objective is to engage participants in a multifaceted exploration of the tradition, the perspectives it offers on American history and the struggle for racial justice, and the universality of its portrait of the personal experiences of African Americans over three centuries.
It offers $1,200 grants to 50 libraries, museums, and nonprofit cultural institutions to host public programs.
All participating institutions will present a minimum of two programs under the grant, at least one of which must be a discussion/reading group moderated by a scholar of African American literature designed to draw out and explore the project themes (above). The program will focus on poems drawn from the Lift Every Voice Reader, which will be made available at this website as a free downloadable PDF, though sites are encouraged to supplement with other poems (for instance by a local or regional poet) that fit the themes. Since audience members cannot be expected to have read the poems in advance, we recommend that programs include live readings or screenings of video recordings of readings available at www.africanamericanpoetry.org.
Historian Sean Wilentz and legal expert Akhil Reed Amar debate the role slavery played in the formation of the Electoral College. Original event took place on Oct. 22 2019.
Duration: 56:23
Source:: https://www.nyhistory.org/audio-video-programs/slavery-and-electoral-college-debate
Slavery and the Electoral College (Recorded Debate)
In Pursuit of Freedom (Online Curriculum)
In Pursuit of Freedom is a multifaceted public history initiative that explores the everyday heroes of Brooklyn’s anti-slavery movement.
People Not Property (Online Resource)
People Not Property is an interactive documentary about the history of Northern colonial enslavement produced by Historic Hudson Valley.
Historic Hudson Valley is a not-for-profit education organization in Westchester County, New York that welcomes visitors to historic landmarks of national significance in the Hudson Valley. Supported by scholarly research, Historic Hudson Valley interprets the history, architecture, landscape, and culture of the Hudson Valley, advancing its importance and thereby assuring its preservation. Through tours, programs, special events, and digital media, Historic Hudson Valley makes meaning for diverse audiences.
1619 NYT Podcast & Online Project
A podcast from The New York Times observing he 400th anniversary of the beginning of American slavery.
The Slave Societies Digital Archive (SSDA), directed by Jane Landers and hosted at Vanderbilt University, is dedicated to identifying, cataloging, and digitally preserving endangered archival materials documenting the history of Africans and their descendants in the Atlantic World.
Source: https://slavesocieties.org
Slave Societies Digital Archive
Freedom on the Move is the first major public digital database of America’s fugitive slave ads developed by a team at Cornell University.
Source: https://freedomonthemove.org
Freedom on the Move: Online Database of American Slavery
The ZORA Canon: 100 Greatest Books Written by African-American Women from 1850-Present.
Source: https://zora.medium.com/100-best-books-by-black-women-authors-zora-canon-46b3492bdded
100 Best Books by Black Women
A list of 24 children’s books compiled by the Huffington Post focusing on black culture, figures and history in America.
Source: https://bit.ly/39pJ1iD