On Sunday, June 11, 2017, at 7 PM, the National Museum of African American History and Culture will host A Seat at the Table with LGBTQ Friends in Faith. This event provides a platform for audiences to consider challenging questions about race, identity, faith, and sexual orientation. We will review clips from the 2013 documentary film The New Black that describes how the African American community comes to terms with gay marriage and civil rights. Join an insightful dialogue with filmmaker Yoruba Richen and Bishop Yvette Flunder, with moderator Earl Fowlkes, and a special performance by Lee Mokobe.
About “A Seat at the Table”
“A Seat at the Table” is a participatory program that promotes conversations about social justice and explores issues of contemporary importance linked to systemic racism, and social, political, and economic inequity. This program augments the National Museum of African American History and Culture’s mission to explore the American experience through the African American lens, and what it means to be an American. “A Seat at the Table” sparks critical thinking and creative conversations about fairness and an exchange of ideas for making our world more equitable.
Tickets will go on sale Friday, May 26, 2017 at 10 AM Eastern time.
Tickets are $35.00 per person. Active Charter Members will receive a discounted ticket price of $25.00 per person.
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As Brazil’s President Michel Temer weathers a new storm of corruption allegations that threaten to topple his administration, the rightwing ruralista (elite agribusiness) congressional bloc is cynically leveraging this political chaos to ram through its regressive and malicious agenda. From slashing forest protections to dismantling Brazil’s indigenous agency to undoing the the country’s environmental licensing standards, ruralista lawmakers and their industry backers are waging an all-out war on hard-fought and fundamental environmental and human rights safeguards enshrined in Brazil’s Constitution and legislation.
While an illegitimate president with a 4% approval rating battles for political survival before a population weathering economic recession and weary with rampant and ingrained corruption, powerful political actors and their big-business backers are brazenly attempting to rewrite Brazil’s social and environmental contract. And the stakes couldn’t be higher for the Amazon and its peoples, where the impacts of these changes would disproportionately fall.
Four years ago this Monday, fast food workers with Working Washington walked out on strike for $15/hour. A year later we walked into history when the Seattle City Council passed the nation’s first citywide $15 minimum wage law.
From minimum wage and sick days to secure scheduling and paid family leave, when workers organize, speak out, and take action, we can change what’s possible. Invest in the next big breakthrough wins for workers — contribute to Working Washington today.
The CBO score confirmed what we knew all along: Trumpcare will take health care away from millions of Americans. Now the fight has moved to the Senate. Demand that your Senator take this Hippocratic oath promising to do no harm to the American health care system.
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