Courageous Conversations Towards Racial Justice - Milton, Mattapan, Quincy, and more.
A monthly series of dialogue-centered events on racism and privilege in society designed to address racial healing, equity, and justice.
STAND UP! ✊🏾 - Cynthia Erivo Cover
MLK Jr. Service Project
You are invited to join Courageous Conversations Towards Racial Justice in this year's MLK Jr. Service Project!
Blessing Bags, filled with travel-sized necessities, will be assembled and distributed to unhoused people. (You may donate items such as soap, shampoo, socks, and other individually packaged items that can be easily carried in ziploc bags. More items are listed on the flyer to the left. )
If you would like to donate supplies, the drop-off date and location are: Monday, January 18, by 11:00 AM
St. Michael’s Church 112 Randolph Avenue, Milton, MA 02186
If you would like to drop off supplies earlier, please contact 617-698-1813.
Remember This Year is a documentary that showcases COVID-19's impact on Milton. In addition, this documentary features members of Courageous Conversations Towards Racial Justice, such as Karen Groce-Horan, in the first Parkway Standout in May.
This documentary can be accessed here, and will be free to watch for a limited time only.
Hearts signs were embellished at the Milton Mattapan Youth Gathering - a socially distanced gathering on 9/9 at the Church of the Holy Spirit in Mattapan. Signs can still be obtained with donations to the Neponset Neighbors Together Fund for $25 or $100 . Please contact Debbie Alsebai at alsebai@verizon.net
Milton Stand Out Against Racism
June 4, 2020 - Day of Reflection and Witness for Seeking Equity and Justice for All | Milton MA
For more CCTRJ educational resources:
Access our full resource library here.
Resource Highlights:
White Allergies? - Uncomfortable Conversations with a Black Man - Ep. 2 w/ Matthew McConaughey
‘Notice the Rage; Notice the Silence’
Quilted Portraits Honor the Stories of Black Men and Women Who Are Forgotten by History
You Want A Confederate Monument? My Body is a Confederate Monument
VIDEO: Frederick Douglass' Descendants Deliver His 'Fourth Of July' Speech
Coronavirus ‘Ripped A Hole’ In N.Y.C.’s Black Community. This Funeral Director Knows.
Amy Cooper, White Spaces, and the Political Project of Whiteness
PBS Kids for Parents: How to Talk Honestly With Children About Race
The Emotional Impact of Watching White People Wake Up to Racism in Real-Time
The Neponset Neighbors Together Fund (“NNTF”) is a collaboration among United Way, the Town of Milton, and the Boston neighborhoods of Mattapan, Dorchester and Hyde Park through Boston City Councilors Andrea Campbell and Ricardo Arroyo, the Milton Interfaith Clergy Association, and Courageous Conversations Toward Racial Justice Milton-Mattapan, to establish a COVID-19 Fund to support neighbors of Milton, Mattapan, Hyde Park and Dorchester, who are adversely impacted by the current health crisis.
Since the Fund launched in late May over $75k has been distributed to our neighbor agencies to support families deeply impacted as a result of the COVID-19 crisis. United Way seeded over half of that fund support and the rest is community funds raised. Here is the list of agencies supported thus far. Please note the Milton Food Pantry and Milton Residents Fund have deferred support thus far feeling they are adequately funded at this time.
- Harbor Health Food Pantry
- Hyde Park Emergency Food Pantry
- Catholic Charities Dorchester
- Codman Sq. CDC
- ABCD Mattapan
- Quincy Community Action Program -Milton fund
Funds have gone to support food insecurity, supplies and other household needs, rental/mortgage and utility support as well. Thank you to all who have stepped up to support neighbors at this most critical time. We are grateful. Here is an inspiring story of community fundraising support. Tremendous thanks to Fran Karoff and her yoga community!
Thank you to Tom Pilla from Milton Access TV and Milton for Social Justice Storytellers for the Milton Stand Out video!
Dismantling Racism
We believe that racism impacts all of us and operates in our community, country, and world on a personal and systemic level.
Gaining Insights
We believe this movement will be fostered through the hard work of personal transformation.
Collaborating Knowledge
Our goal is to participate in understanding, interrupting, and ending systems of white supremacy culture and racism.
