Photos: MFEE workshops racial stress, racial literacy

Photos: MFEE workshops racial stress, racial literacy

MC Nelly Bess gets the crowd of participants energized.

The splash page on the Montclair Fund for Educational Excellence website for the new workshop presented on Sunday, March 1 in St. Luke's Episcopal Church, "America to Me Real Talk," asks

"Be Courageous

Race. Conversation. Honesty. Action.

We Montclairians pride ourselves in valuing diversity and promoting racial integration.

• But how racially literate are we? 

• Have we grown complacent about racism in Montclair?  

• Are our past successes getting in the way of real change to address persistent racial inequality in our town?"

The first in a quintet of programs, a "community watch club," presented "..kinda like a...book club," according to the MFEE offers a group of trained leaders for the process, briefing the audience, screening film clips and videos, including one about a Chicago high school similar to MHS, to open the conversation about insidious racial bias, with a common language, racial literacy.

You can learn more, contact MFEE at info@mfee.org, (973) 509-4021

Filed Under: America to Me, Education, MFEE, Montclair Fund for Eductional Excellence, racism, volunteerism
Categories: Education
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