These themes take on new urgency in light of events unfolding in the USA. The multiple entanglements of activism and philosophy thread throughout the series.

Lecture 1: Lessons from #WhyWeCantWait: Tracking Affectability Imbalances in an Executive Initiative
Wednesday 14 May, 16:30 – 18:00

It's time to redefine whose expertise matters. We are A New Deal for Youth, with a policy platform focused on:

💸 Economic Justice
❤️‍🩹 Healing & Well-Being
✊🏾 Justice & Safe Communities
🪧 Democracy & Civic Engagement
🦋 Environmental Justice
🌎 Immigration Justice

#WhyWeCantWait #ANewDealforYouth

Why We Can't Wait
Martin Luther King
1964
19 / 20
#booksky #bookchallenge #whywecantwait #martinlutherking #mlk

Read #MLK’s #WhyWeCantWait.

It provides a wealth of information on nonviolent strategies, how to prepare for well-organized nonviolent direct action, and how to respond with a powerful goal in mind when confronted with violence in several forms.

Includes #LetterFromBirminghamJail

Martin Luther King and Anne Frank were born in the same year: 1929.

#whywecantwait
#mlk
#martinlutherkingjr
#annefrank
#civilrightsmovement
#holocaust
#hashoah
#thepastisntevenpast
#historicalcontext

He just reduced #whywecantwait to "White feminism" and said that we should fall back because we can get married if BM are doing better.

7 Lies We Have to Stop Telling About African-American Girls by @sirsargent http://mic.cm/1Atn1h9 via @MicNews #whywecantwait

Great @ggenyc event on 10/11 in NY, gooo! #whywecantwait #schoolpushout http://instagram.com/p/t79crSSxhT/

Many have established why Black boys need special programs. No one has explained why Black girls don't #whywecantwait