A Sampling of Recent Activities

2023

Meetings/Co-Sponsor

Book Discussion

Movie Discussion

        • Braiding Sweet Grass by Robin Wall Kimmerer
        • The Crossroads of Social and Climate Justice by LaVerne McLeod

          • Hari Kondabolu: Warn Your Relatives
          • 100% Me, Growing Up Mixed

        2022

        White Affinity Group

        Book Discussion

        Movie Discussion

            • January – Renewal & Recommitment

            • February – Voting Rights

            • March – Master Class: Black History, Black Freedom, Black Love

            • April – How and why racism persists and is strengthened by facades of inclusion by Dr, Carol McKibben

            • May – Walk of Remembrance

            • June – Community Gathering at Windows on the Bay

            • September – Supporting HBCUs

            • October – Do the Work! An Antiracist Activity Book

            • November – Two Americas – by Anad Giridhardas

              • March – Book – See No Stranger

              • June – Book – The Trees: A Novel by Percival Everett

              • November – You Are Your Best Thing: Vulnerability, Shame, Resilience, and the Black Experience

              • December – book – The Parable of the Sower by Octavia Butler

                • January – Movie – Exterminate All the Brutes

                • May – Movie – Who We Are: A Chronicle of Racism

                • November – Movie – Nope

              2021

              White Affinity Group

              Book Discussion

              Movie Discussion

                  • January – Sue Parris – NCBI Anti-Black Racism Conference

                  • February – Fred Jealous, Dirrick Williams – Court System

                  • March – JT Mason, Cynthia Ainsworth – White Role Models

                  • April – JT Mason, Xiago – A Timeline of Race & Equity in Monterey County

                  • May – Anita Crawley, Cyndi Fox – Educating Ourselves

                  • June – Caroline Haskell, Ann Jealous – Essential Skills for Embracing Racial Diversity & Equity

                  • July – JT Mason, Ben Jealous – Acting Locally & Nationally to End Racism

                  • September – Anita Crawley, Lynn Burnett – White Ancestors

                  • October – Anita Crawley, Implicit Bias; What it is and How to Interrupt it

                  • November – Lynne Sexton – Reparations

                  • December – Lynne Sexton, An McDowell, Cyndi Fox – Secret Santa Celebration

                    • February – Book – Just Us: An American Conversation

                    • April – Book – Mediocre

                    • June – Book – The Sum of Us

                    • August – Book – Not Always a Valley of Tears

                    • October – Book – Nice Racism

                    • December – Book – How the Word is Passed

                      • January – Movie – The Body Remembers When the World Broke Open

                      • March – Movie – Small Axe

                      • May – Movie – Judas and the Black Messiah

                      • July – Movie – Minari

                      • September – Movie – Summer of Soul

                      • November – Movie – Rita Moreno: Just a Girl who Decided to Go For It

                    2020

                    White Affinity Group

                    Book Discussion

                    Movie Discussion

                        • January – Jeanne Gavrin – My Journey

                        • February – Elaine Gehrmann – Accountable Anti-Racism

                        • February – Caroline, JT, Sue  – Accountability (follow-up)

                        • May – Karen Brown & Tritia Moneypenny – Anti-Racists Working Against Voter Suppression

                        • June – Dan Fernandez – Wealth Gap

                        • July – JT Mason – Policing Justice

                        • August – Caroline Haskell & Julie Altman – Race & Non-profit Work

                        • September & October – Bonnie Fernandez – Multigenerational and racialized trauma in America and the task of healing the body, communities, and our country.  Based on My Grandmother’s Hands by Resmaa Menakem

                        • November – Richard Moss and NCBI team – Anti-Semitism

                        • December – Lynne Sexton coordinator w/ Bruce Doneaux & Cyndi Fox Secret Santa Celebration

                          • January – Give Me Some Truth by Eric Gansworth

                          • February –  Their Eyes Were Watching God by Zora Neale Hurston

                          • March – How to be an Anti-Racist by Ibram X. Kendi

                          • April – Homie by Danez Smith

                          • May –  A Black Woman’s History of the United States by Daina Ramey Berry

                          • June – Mindful of Race by Ruth King

                          • August – There, There by Tommy Orange

                          • October – Caste: The Origins of our Discontent by Isabel Wilkerson

                          • December – Such a Fun Age by Kiley Reid

                            • January – Do The Right Thing

                            • February – Monsters and Men

                            • March – The Farewell

                            • April – Queen & Slim

                            • July – Just Mercy

                            • September – Stockton on my Mind

                            • November – Black Boys