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