Amanda Gorman is a 24-year-old poet, and the youngest poet to speak at an inauguration in U.S. history. She graduated from Harvard University and she is a social justice advocate whose poems highlight issues of oppression, feminism, race, and marginalized groups of people. She advocates for social change through poetry.
All in all, the people are Rwanda are still healing and grieving from the genocide that happened in their country. They are awaiting justice to be served on those responsible, they are trying to find peace in their lives by making the best out of a tragic situation, and a lot of them have turned into social justice advocates in order to ensure nothing like this happens again.
Cleveland Peace Action is hosting acclaimed historian and author, Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz for a virtual discussion of her 2021 book, Not “A Nation of Immigrants”: Settler Colonialism, White Supremacy, and a History of Erasure and Exclusion.
Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz will be joined in conversation with Detroit-based activist and writer Frank Joyce. Q and A with the audience will follow. Program is free and open to the public.
The eye-opening and transformative new book from the author of An Indigenous People’s History of the United States will challenge what you believe about U.S. history. An essential text for the twenty-first century, Not “A Nation of Immigrants” charges that it’s time to stop perpetuating simplistic and ahistorical fantasies and embrace the true, complex and often sobering history of these United States.
Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz grew up in rural Oklahoma, the daughter of a tenant farmer and part- Indian mother. She has been active in the international Indigenous movement for more than four decades and is known for her lifelong commitment to national and international social justice issues. She lives in San Francisco.
Frank Joyce is a lifelong Detroit based writer and activist. He is co-editor with Karin Aguilar-San Juan of The People Make The Peace: Lessons From the Vietnam Antiwar Movement and he is currently writing a book about unlearning white supremacy.
Co-sponsored by these bookstores: Mac’s Backs, Loganberry Books, Learned Owl
Other co-sponsors include American Indian Movement-Ohio, Cleveland Nonviolence Network, County Progressive Caucus, InterReligious Task Force on Central America, Hip Hop Congress, Black on Black Crime Inc., Lake Erie Native American Council, End Poverty Now!, Ohio Poor People’s Campaign, NEOH Black Health Coalition, Young Latino Network
