Black Dance Changemakers is a group of Black dancers redefining performance through choreographed movements of change. We unite and uplift our community through leadership, education, and service.
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Black Dance Changemakers is a group of Black dancers redefining performance through choreographed movements of change. We unite and uplift our community through leadership, education, and service.
Amber Butts
Activists, specifically in non-profit organizations, are ableist as hell. There’s this hierarchy and expectation that the folks most impacted by the conditions be on the front lines, both as symbols and as resistors. But there’s another, more insidious, subtle connection in history: the folks on the front lines are the most exposed and most expendable.
All of It, WNYC
Dr. Nyeema C. Watson is the vice chancellor diversity, inclusion, and civic engagement at Rutgers University–Camden, where she oversees efforts to build an inclusive campus community while also connecting the resources of the university with communities in Camden and across southern New Jersey. She joins us to discuss talking to kids about race and takes listeners’ calls.
Venita Blackburn
To give up whiteness is to become vulnerable, to confront the deep tears in the psyche gouged over generations, to see hate in the face of a loved one and name it and therefore open yourself up to being seen and ultimately touched.