HR!Day447 - Part I: Commemorating the Anniversary of the Assassination of Martin Luther King in the Context of Black Leadership
HUMANITY’S RECKONING WITH ITS RACE-LINKED WOUNDS (In Five Parts)
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This Week: Race-Linked Wounds
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Repair |
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Today is the 54th anniversary of the assassination of Martin Luther King. We begin a five day program on Humanity’s Reckoning with its Race-Linked Wounds
As a species, Humanity is seeking to evolve its individual and Collective Consciousness. Various segments of Humanity are now nurturing the unfolding of this process. As this process unfolds, Humanity is being challenged to reckon with the many wounds that it/we have caused or allowed to fester individually and collectively. One of those wounds is what can be called our race-linked wounds. If Humanity is to evolve its Collective Consciousness, therefore, it is important to reckon with its race-linked wounds, for these wounds require healing and repair. Otherwise, our individual and Collective Consciousness will continue to remain stuck in playing what can be called our Security Human Race Games, our Sensory Human Race Games, and our Power Human Race Games. All three of these Human Race Games are ego-driven, fueled by fear, and they represent our individual and collective struggles to deal with two basic universal creative questions for Humanity: (1) how best to achieve Balance and Cooperation as a species and (2) how best to achieve Equity as we construct our notions about our perceived racial selves and as we construct our societal and institutional structures and practices and various cultural norms. To explore these two basic creative questions, the intent of this five-part series is to bring together a variety of voices to share their “lived experiences” as they have sought to reckon with and to help others reckon with race-linked wounds, healing, and repair work. It is hoped that these sessions can serve as mirrors for individual and collective repair work as Humanity seeks to reckon with its race-linked wounds.
April 4th is the anniversary of the assassination of Martin Luther King, Jr. The purpose of this session is not only to acknowledge and celebrate the monumental contributions that Dr. King made in his attempts to assist humanity in reckoning with its race-linked wounds, but additionally to call attention to the substantive repair work that is still required. In that light, Black leaders are faced with numerous challenges in a variety of arenas. More specifically, in this session, we want to shine a special light on the “lived experiences” of the panelists as Black educators and community leaders, and what they view as unfinished business in the world of education and community engaged work.
Through brief presentations and discussion, the goal is to provide an informative overview perspective, based on the “lived experiences” of Black educators and community leaders, about the kinds of issues they face and how they have attempted to deal with them. The intention is only to present one of many lenses through which to view some of humanity’s remaining challenges for healing and repair work.
Presenters
- Carroy (Cuf) Ferguson, Convener, has a Ph.D. in Psychology from Boston College. He has been President or Co-President of the Association for Humanistic Psychology for many years, making history in 2006 as the first African American and first person of color to be President of this national Association since its founding in 1962 by world-renown psychologists in the field like Abraham Maslow and Carl Rogers. He is a tenured Full Professor and former Dean at University of Massachusetts-Boston, currently serves as Human Services Program Director and Human Service Internship Coordinator, is a co-founder of two visionary organizations (Interculture, Inc. and Associates in Human Understanding), is a co-founder of Massachusetts’ historic Commonwealth Diversity Fellows Program, has been a clinical practitioner for over 35+ years, is a member of a number of boards, is a human relations, multicultural, and organizational development consultant, and workshop facilitator, is an Associate Editor of the Journal of Humanistic Psychology, and is a published author of books, articles, and other writings (e.g., Evolving The Human Race Game; A New Perspective on Race and Color; Transitions in Consciousness from an African American Perspective; and Innovative Approaches to Education and Community Service).
- Kevin C. Peterson is the Founder and Executive Director of The New Democracy Coalition, a non-partisan and non-profit organization that focuses on civic engagement in Massachusetts and across the United States. He also founded the Fanueil Hall Race and Reconciliation Project, which seeks to foster social justice through reckoning, repenting and human repair narratives. As a Christian minister, he practices what is called public theology in the ethical traditions of Jesus, Ghandi, Ella Baker, and the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.
- Dr. Jemadari Kamara has a Ph.D. from University of Michigan. He is a former Dean at UMass Boston, is a former multi-time Chair of the University’s Africana Studies Department, is an Associate Professor of Africana Studies at the campus, and is also Founding Director of the Center for African, Caribbean and Community Development at the campus. In the academy, he previously taught at Brandeis University (1970s), served as Director of the William Monroe Trotter House at University of Michigan, Chair of the African and Afro-American Studies Department at the University of Michigan Flint (1980s), and was a Fulbright Scholar at the Universite Nationale du Benin in Cotonou, Benin and Senior Fulbright Scholar at the Universite Gaston Berger in Saint-Louis, Senegal. Beyond the academy, he also served as the Development Consultant for the Societe Africaine de Technologie Appropriee et Developpment (S.A.T.A.D.) in Cotonou, Benin. In the 1990s, he helped to found and continues to coordinate the Annual Martin Luther King, Jr./Amilcar Cabral Commemorative Program. Also, he collaborated in developing the Community Action Information Network (CAIN), which assisted community-based organizations in applying technology and data-based information to community-defined purposes for development. Additionally, he serves as an international coordinator for the Youth Education and Sports (YES) with Africa Program, which has served 3000+African youth. Among his numerous publications is State of the Race—Creating Our 21st Century, which won the Charshee McIntrye Award and was named the African Heritage Studies Association Outstanding Book of the year. He is also Editor of Socially Responsible Investment and Economic Development. Currently, he is editing The Interrogating Gaze: Resistance, Transformation and Decolonizing Praxis which will be published later this year.
- Charlie Titus retired as an experienced Vice Chancellor of Athletics, Special Projects & Programs from the University of Massachusetts-Boston with a demonstrated history of working in the higher education industry. He has strong business development professional skills in Educational Technology, Student Development, Policy Analysis, Organizational Development, and Social Media. He is considered a UMass Boston legend. For four decades, he served as a leader both on the campus and in the city of Boston, particularly in regard to youth programs. NBC Sports Boston named him as one of the most influential Black executives in Boston sports history. He was instrumental in the formation and development of the Little East Conference, serves on the board of directors for several organizations, including the Bay State Games and the Boston Public School Sports Partnership, and serves as Board chair of Boston’s Higher Ground, including the Grimes King Foundation and Urban College of Boston. He has received national recognition with numerous community service awards, and he will be inducted into the National Association of Collegiate Directors of Athletics (NACDA) Hall of Fame Class of 2022.
Co-convener:
- Jim Garrison, President, Ubiquity University
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