Ice Cream Activism

Those who know me, know I love people, travel and food.  One of my favorite foods is ice cream.  My favorite ice cream is Ben and Jerry's because even before it was a "thing" they have always spoken truth to power.  Here is a walk through American history through the eyes of enslaved people and the impact on their descendants.  

What We Believe:  From Slavery to Mass Incarceration

https://www.benjerry.com/whats-new/2019/08/slavery-to-mass-incarceration

1619 

https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2019/08/14/magazine/1619-america-slavery.html

Slavery Made America

https://www.theatlantic.com/business/archive/2014/06/slavery-made-america/373288/

What it Means to Celebrate Juneteenth

https://www.benjerry.com/whats-new/2019/06/juneteenth

Jim Crow Laws

https://www.history.com/topics/early-20th-century-us/jim-crow-laws

Interactive Map of Redlining in America

https://www.npr.org/sections/thetwo-way/2016/10/19/498536077/interactive-redlining-map-zooms-in-on-americas-history-of-discrimination

How the U.S. Government Segregated America

https://www.npr.org/2017/05/03/526655831/a-forgotten-history-of-how-the-u-s-government-segregated-america

SubPrime Housing Lending Impact on Black Americans

https://www.theguardian.com/business/2015/jun/23/black-americans-housing-crisis-sub-prime-loan

Prison Labor and the 13th Amendment

https://eji.org/news/history-racial-injustice-prison-labor/

Angola: A Short History

https://ccnmtl.columbia.edu/projects/caseconsortium/casestudies/54/casestudy/www/layout/case_id_54_id_547.html

Black Codes

https://www.history.com/topics/black-history/black-codes

Why Blacks Have Struggled for Decades to Gain Wealth

https://www.marketwatch.com/story/heres-why-black-families-have-struggled-for-decades-to-gain-wealth-2019-02-28

Prison Policy: Mass Incarceration

https://www.prisonpolicy.org/reports/rates.html

A History in Support of Reparations

https://www.vox.com/identities/2019/6/19/18691735/ta-nehisi-coates-mitch-mcconnell-reparations-history-racism-slaver

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Transforming the Criminal Justice System

https://www.benjerry.com/whats-new/2019/01/front-end-criminal-justice

7 Ways We Know Systemic Racism is Real

https://www.benjerry.com/home/whats-new/2016/systemic-racism-is-real

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https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/congress/mitch-mcconnell-ancestors-slave-owners-alabama-1800s-census-n1027511

Netflix:  "13th" the Movie

Racism Has Cost the U.S. Economy $16 Trillion

https://www.blackenterprise.com/citigroup-report-racism-has-cost-us-economy-16-trillion-in-20-years/

White Awake 

Daniel Hill

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Reparations Are Past Due

Jeremiah Chapman and Tom Steyer

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The Time is Now 

Stacy Abrams

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How to Be an Antiracist 

Dr. Ibram Kendi

Faith, Monuments and Black Lives Matter 

     Courageous Conversation Podcast                                              

In The Matter of Black Lives

           Rev. Dr. Jaqueline Lewis            

"Speaking Truth to Power - Faith in Action"

2021 Presidential Inauguration Poem by the 1st Youth National Poet Laureate:

Amanda Gorman