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This week’s Race + Power newsletter features another excerpt from a roundtable hosted by Edge Leadership on the state of race and power today. This one highlights the innovations occurring in that work, and because of it. Kim-Monique Johnson invites us to innovate the concept and practice of supervision as part of anti-racism work. We include a link to a critical review of the new Amazon Prime series Them, which horrifies in its exaltation of Black racial trauma and serves as a warning about the risk of focusing on it as the main experience of Blackness. (It’s high time to move beyond Black trauma porn.) Finally, there is a link to register for our Remaking the Economy event next week, which looks at how three communities of color are using organizing strategies to build wealth.
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In this clip from the Edge Leadership Race and Power Roundtable, participants talk about challenges in the field as majority-white organizations transition to BIPOC-led organizations. They explore the different types of work happening around race, and how to build strong communities rather than cancel cultures. Read and watch here...
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The reviewer, Angelica Jade Bastién, a Black woman, writes, “I am comfortable calling it one of the most anti-Black pieces of pop culture I’ve seen in the last few years, one that left me spent after the grueling process of watching its virulent imagery. It is a stunning refutation to Hollywood’s belief that representation behind and in front of the camera will fix its inherent racism.” Read more...
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We can rid ourselves of the supervisor title— but to truly rid ourselves of the embedded racism in organizational leadership is to envision a different paradigm. Read more...
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Webinar: Remaking the Economy
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This webinar looks at efforts to organize and build wealth in three specific communities in the United States: the border town of El Paso, Texas; a worker co-op organizing group in Cincinnati that has also supported similar efforts in California and Mississippi; and community-based business development in Indian Country among Minnesota tribes. Register here...
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