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Book Recommendation: Farming while Black 

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James Beard Foundation Leadership Award 2019: Leah Penniman Choice Reviews, Outstanding Academic Title "An extraordinary book...part agricultural guide, part revolutionary manifesto."--VOGUE Named a "Best Book on Sustainable Living and Sustainability" by Book Riot In 1920, 14 percent of all land-owning US farmers were black.

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ListenAudio stories from generations affected by lynching.

WatchA film exploring one family's painful past and journey south.

ExploreInteractive maps on the impact of lynching.

Learn MoreJoin our efforts to fight racial injustice today.

The ReportThe full report with additional research and materials for educators.

AboutMore about the project and the Equal Justice Initiative.

Strange Fruit

This site features painful stories of America's history of racial injustice. In order to heal the deep wounds of our present, we must face the truth of our past.

After slavery was formally abolished, lynching emerged as a vicious tool of racial control to reestablish white supremacy and suppress Black civil rights. More than 4,000 African Americans were lynched across twenty states between 1877 and 1950.

These lynchings were public acts of racial terrorism, intended to instill fear in entire Black communities. Government officials frequently turned a blind eye or condoned the mob violence.

The effects of racial terror lynchings are still felt today.

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Lynching in America: Confronting the Legacy of Racial Terror

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ListenAudio stories from generations affected by lynching. WatchA film exploring one family's painful past and journey south. ExploreInteractive maps on the impact of lynching. Learn MoreJoin our efforts to fight racial injustice today. The ReportThe full report with additional research and materials for educators. AboutMore about the project and the Equal Justice Initiative.

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Book Recommendation: We Were Eight Years in Power

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Book Recommendation: We Were Eight Years in Power

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We Were Eight Years in Power: An American Tragedy

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We Were Eight Years in Power: An American Tragedy [Coates, Ta-Nehisi] on Amazon.com. *FREE* shipping on qualifying offers. We Were Eight Years in Power: An American Tragedy

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Black History Bootcamp walking tour - podcast from GirlTrek (you listen to Black History while you walk!)

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GirlTrek’s Black History Bootcamp Podcast is a 21-day walking meditation series to remember where we came from and to gather strength for the road ahead. We celebrate Black stories and the lessons of our ancestors to help guide us through these uncertain times. Sign up to receive updates and specially curated emails with survival tips, speeches + dedicated songs to listen to for each episode.

Latest Episode

Our Stories

Each episode of Black History Bootcamp is a conversation between friends on strategies of survival, self-care and joy that we can learn through the lives of from Black history makers. Through stories of the past, we piece together a blueprint to support the health and happiness of Black women.

Special Edition

Bonus episodes that pay tribute to special moments of significance and impact.

Meet the Hosts

Co-founders of Girltrek, the largest health movement and nonprofit for Black women and girls in the United States. Ten years ago, 2 college friends, T. Morgan Dixon and Vanessa Garrison, started a 10-week walking challenge that is now GirlTrek, a movement of 1 million Black women and counting.

“Girltrek girltrekers have not only been my inspiration but somewhat my new found family and its great to join a sisterhood in today’s society where there’s division and hated so thick that it sickens my very soul. George Floyd, Brianna Taylor and one of our locals Cory Jones and countless others lost theirs, but through GirlTrek I’m regained my life, self worth and greater sense and respect for life. Thanks for being there for myself and many others # one million strong/one million proud and growing!!”

Cassandra

“You Vanessa and Morgan and we all who walk with you. We don’t need celebrities, you bring the blessings of the ancestors celebrities who have given all Black’s women and families and all people hope and light forward. The simple work and joy of waking each day can change lives in health in emotions in knowledge in spirituality. Thank you always beautiful sisters!”

Jacqueline

“I just wanted to tell you how much I enjoyed the PRAYER EDITION Of GIRL TREK. I am a little sad because it’s day #2. I was already a Spiritual Warrior but NOW…..WOW. I love having the Podcast on Spotify. I share and Invite alot of my Sistas to join the Girl Trek family. I proudly wear my Girl Trek Blue attire… I am a better human being since joining last season (Resistance) Sending you love and blessings.”

Gayle

“Oh my goodness, if I’ve said it once, I’ve said it 1000 times, GirlTrek’s Black History Boot Camp is so valuable. I know it’s not intended for me because I am white but I am just fueled by it every day. I love learning about the history of my Black fellow citizens. The links you provide in the emails are also invaluable.”

Joanne

“Just wanted you to know how wonderful I think this program is. It is deep, and rich, and interesting, and inspiring. Thank you for allowing me the privilege to learn along with you.”

Carol

“As I compose this email with tears in my eyes I want to say thank you. I thank God for you. For your vision, your tenacity, your diligence, determination, encouragement, feistiness, steadfastness, for everything you have within you that you have chosen to share with us. Today, October 17th, is actually my first day of the Spiritual Bootcamp. I participated in the first two bootcamps but my job has been so demanding that I have not remained committed to my commitment to walk at least 30 minutes a day for me. This makes my heart hurt because of that. Listening to the first day of the spiritual bootcamp has made me realize that I have to do this for ME.”

Pam

“I just want to thank you for this Black History Bootcamp. I only discovered it a few weeks ago and I must say, it is a lifesaver. The stories have been a saving grace, especially on days when I feel the world pressing down on my back. I recently listened to the episode about Nina Simone, who happens to be one of my favorite singers. When you talked about the fear that black women feel, it clearly resonated with me.”

Althea

” I absolutely LOVE Girl Trek. I just started the 21 day Black History bootcamp last weekend. I’m on Day 7. You ladies are really terrific. I hope to meet you one day. Thanks for inspiring me. I appreciate listening and learning. It’s empowering. Reminds me that it’s never too late to use my voice and my gift.”

Lylah

“I had to stop and say thank you! I received an email stating that you all would be walking and praying. You ask that we put in our request and I did! One of my prayer request was for a job. Now, I can’t tell it all but what I can say is I had been looking for along time. I was so frustrated and tired of filling out applications only to received rejection letter after rejection letter. Welllllllll…. after I put in my request, I literally had a job within days. It was unbelievable. Thank you for all that you ladies do in supporting others. I appreciate your concern and your presence. “

Syville

“Maya has been my living and spiritual Mentor since I was 12 yrs old. I am now 65 and carrying her mantle every breath I breathe. Thank you for your carrying her too, on this Walk.”

Andrea

About GirlTrek

GirlTrek is the nation’s largest public health movement serving Black women and girls.

GirlTrek unapologetically serves the needs and desires of Black women by inspiring and mobilizing Black women everywhere to put themselves first by practicing radical self-care through walking and spending transformative time in nature and the outdoors. With each walk, with each challenge, with each 30-minute commitment completed, GirlTrek is creating a movement, a revolution centered on self-love. With 1 million members and counting, GirlTrek is the most effective public health solution in the country.

Register now for bootcamp

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Black History Bootcamp - The walking podcast powered by GirlTrek

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GirlTrek's Black History Bootcamp Podcast is a 21-day walking meditation series to remember where we came from and to gather strength for the road ahead. We celebrate Black stories and the lessons of our ancestors to help guide us through these uncertain times.

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The African American Anti-Slavery Resistance from the Stono Rebellion through the Seminoles Wars by Y. N. KLY. In the Foreward provides an excellent argument about why the American Lexicon is Racist and alternative words to use that uplift people of African descent. For example, Master vs. Captor.

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The Invisible War: African American Anti-Slavery Resistance from the Stono Rebellion through the Seminole Wars

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The Invisible War: African American Anti-Slavery Resistance from the Stono Rebellion through the Seminole Wars [Kly, Y. N.] on Amazon.com. *FREE* shipping on qualifying offers. The Invisible War: African American Anti-Slavery Resistance from the Stono Rebellion through the Seminole Wars

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SNCC’s body of information is built around stories. Its uniqueness reflects the relationship between ordinary people and SNCC veterans, whether at the dinner table or mass meetings.

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The Freedom Archives contains over 12,000 hours of audio and video recordings as well as print materials dating primarily from the late-1960s to the mid-90s. These collections chronicle the progressive history of the Bay Area, the United States, and international movements for liberation and social justice.

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A Black Feminist Organizing and Movement Building Timeline is an interactive resource spanning the 1800s to present, that documents the ongoing pulse of Black feminist leaders, action points, cultural moments, key terms, and social movements in the US. Black Feminist future

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Click a point to explore our Black Feminist Timeline:

Click here to filter the resources by key people, action points, key terms, social movements, or culture.

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This feature works best on desktop or tablet. Please grab a bigger device to explore our timeline.

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Fractals - Fractals: A Black Feminist Organizing and Movement Building Timeline

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Skip to content Click a point to explore our Black Feminist Timeline: Click here to filter the resources by key people, action points, key terms, social movements, or culture. FILTERS: This feature works best on desktop or tablet. Please grab a bigger device to explore our timeline.

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dedicated to providing reliable information on the history of Black people across the globe, and especially in North America. Our goal is to promote greater understanding of our common human experience through knowledge of the diversity of the Black experience and the ubiquity of the global Black presence.(timelines, primary documents, articles, newspapers, speeches and a children's page for ages between  7-12 year-olds.

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Black Lives Matter Collective Storytelling Project

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Black Lives Matter Collective Storytelling Project

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Black Lives Matter Collective Storytelling Project Student reflections on race, racism and racial justice.

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Black Lives Matter Collective Storytelling Project - Simple Book Publishing

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Black Lives Matter Collective Storytelling Project by A University of Washington Tacoma cross-course collaboration between TSOC 265 and TCOM 347 courses. is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International License, except where otherwise noted.

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Cite Black Women is a movement dedicated to highlighting the expertise of Black womden scholars (organically and academically trained) who are often undercut and undermined. (Blog, podcast, socail media presence)

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Proceeds from our t-shirt sales support grassroots initiatives led by Black women. Learn more about our 2018 campaign to support the Winnie Mandela School in Salvador da Bahia, Brazil.

It takes a village to organize a movement. The Cite Black Women Collective is our team of visionaries that drives the Cite Black Women movement out front and behind the scenes.

THE COMMUNITY

Follow us @CiteBlackWomen on Twitter, Instagram and Facebook to stay active in our community conversations from our syllabus hive-minds to #CiteBlackWomenSundays

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The official site of the Cite Black Women. campaign.

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Historypin is a digital tool that allows your to create a collection of items and anchor it to a digital map. This can be helpful in visualizing where events took place and also allows students to interact with primary sources attached to an event.

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Create a new document and edit with others at the same time -- from your computer, phone or tablet. Get stuff done with or without an internet connection. Use Docs to edit Word files. Free from Google.

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UC Gill Tract farm, history of an occupation

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The Gill Tract: An Unfinished Fight for Land and Learning

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The Gill Tract: An Unfinished Fight for Land and Learning

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Historical Essay

by Students for Engaged and Active Learning (SEAL), 2015

The Gill Tract Farm is the last remaining 20 acres of historic farmland in the East Bay, owned by and located near the University of California, Berkeley in Albany. It has a long rich history, and the people who have lived, farmed, taught, and dreamed upon its soil have endured dispossession, silencing, and repression. The struggle for this land is a long but worthwhile one, and while it continues, the Gill Tract serves as a symbol of hope and resilience against the privatization of land, knowledge, and education.

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This land was violently stripped of the indigenous people of this area through colonization. The Ohlone, or Costanoan, people built their livelihoods upon the land between the Carquinez Street and Monterey. The Spanish arrived in the late 18th century, and with the establishment of Mission San Francisco across the Bay they bought disease and forced culture. Mission records indicate that the indigenous people of this region were relocated, sometimes forcibly, to mission San Francisco, and following the secularization of the missions in 1833, worked as manual laborers in ranchos.

On August 3, 1820, Luis Maria Peralta received the Rancho San Antonio land grant for his service to the Spanish government. The 43,000-acre Rancho San Antonio contained the future sites of Albany, Oakland, Berkeley, Alameda, and parts of San Leandro and Piedmont. Peralta's grant was confirmed after Mexico's independence from Spain in 1822, and honored by the Treaty of Hidalgo in 1848 when California became part of the United States. Peralta's son, Jose Domingo, received the northern portion of the rancho, which included the location of what is today Albany and Berkeley. The Gill Family acquired the land in 1889, and it was used for various farming projects, a nursery, and an arboretum. Though it was originally over 100 acres large, it was gifted, sold, and leased by different projects over the course of the century including military housing during World War II. In the mid 1970s, following Reagan's austerity governorship, there was the first mention of a "Regional Shopping Mall" to be built on the "Northeast sector" of the Gill Tract. However, this was not possible at the time because of the strength of the world-renown Biologic Control Research Station. Starting in 1945, there was a famous Center for Biologic Control on the site where research on how insects and ecological systems could be integrated into pest management was taking place. At a time when pesticides were taking off, and the culture within the University was "better living through chemistry", this center was an important node in the fight against industrializing agriculture that endures today. This research was an inspiration to many in the emerging environmental movement, including Rachel Carson, and bolstered the anti-pesticide movements.

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However, this center was actively dismantled by the University between the late 1970s to the 1990s in result of pressures within the University from the pesticide industry and because of the interest in attracting more corporate donations. This transition from Biologic Control to research for the benefit of petrochemical interests and industrial agriculture came to an apex in 1997 when the department of Plant and Molecular Biology received a $25 million donation from Novartis. This sparked indignation and active protest on campus, notably from Professor Ignacio Chapela, who had witnessed the impact of GMOs on corn crops across Mexico and knew deeply what it would mean for our research to be bought by a biotech corporation. After speaking out, Professor Chapela was scandalously denied tenured directly by the Chancellor (he eventually received tenure through a vigilant and unyielding mass mobilization).

Over 15 years later, petrochemical corporations continue to have a large hold on the University, as exemplified by the BP building on campus, and Professors continue to be silenced. Professor Tyrone Hayes has been targeted by the pesticide industry because of his outspokenness on his findings on the toxicological impacts of Atrazine. Well-known Agroecology researcher, Professor Miguel Altieri, has also been repeatedly intimidated, especially following his support for activism on the Gill Tract.

The struggle for free speech continues to live on 50 years after the Free Speech Movement on campus, and academic freedom is just one form of speech that is continuously threatened by the privatization of the University. After Capital Projects made their initial plan back in 1997, a coalition of 30 community groups and many UC Professors (including Ignacio Chapela and Miguel Altieri) put together the BACUA proposal advocating for the use of the space for an Urban Agriculture Research station. Over the decades, different iterations of community and student groups kept up the fight from city council meeting to city council meeting, and while they were very effective at stalling, the project kept moved along through the system. Capital Projects points out all of the opportunities that the community had to give comments on the proposal- but they do not highlight the fact that at these meetings there was significant community opposition to the project. While Capital Projects has ostensibly made opportunities for the community to voice its opinion, it has not listened to this opinion. For example, in 2012, there was a community referendum with over 1000 signatures from local neighbors and Albany Residents, gathered in just two weeks, who wanted to put the development agreement to a public vote. Capital Projects threw out the development agreement, an inessential part of the development plan, and so the project was never put to the vote that local community members democratically called for.

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In 2012, inspired by the Occupy movement, a community group including former Berkeley students, taught under Miguel Altieri, created "Occupy the Farm". On Earth Day, 2012, OTF led a high profile act of nonviolent civil disobedience by breaking the locks at the Gill Tract, planting a large plot of the land, and setting up an encampment to defend the crops. Their actions directly led Whole Foods, the corporate grocery store that planned to build on the farmland, to cancel its lease, one acre of the Gill Tract is now protected a community-driven and collaborative garden for 10 years (from 2012). A documentary, Occupy the Farm, was filmed and released internationally about their efforts.

The part of the Gill Tract that operates as a community farm produces seasonal produce that is free to everyone, provided to the community at a weekly farm stand and to the Berkeley Food Pantry for students. Sprouts Farmer's Market and a high-end senior care facility have been approved for development upon just over 5 acres of the Gill Tract, and the fight for all 20 acres continues. The Gill Tract is an important part of the UC Berkeley campus, and yet student needs for research and education have been continuously ignored in this development project. In 2014, a group of passionate students formed Students for Engaged and Active Learning (SEAL), a campus group representing student need for experiential and hands-on learning, and therefore, permanent protection for the Gill Tract. SEAL's work to hold UC Berkeley accountable to its mission and halt the development plans have taken numerous forms, including the formation of a petition that has gained over 2,500 signatures and an act of civil disobedience through which they demanded a meeting with Chancellor Nicholas Dirks. Clear and constant opposition has fallen upon deaf ears, and the University's failure to provide transparency in its decision making and meet the needs of its students reveals its increasing privatization.

On February 26, 2015, UC Berkeley mandated the destruction of 60 trees, many of them rare and over a century old, the first step of development. Defense of this soil is more important than ever, and SEAL and OTF continue to work in opposition of the development plans.

The Gill Tract is living, carbon-sequestering history in a time of climate change injustices and privatization.

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Historical Essay by Students for Engaged and Active Learning (SEAL), 2015 The Gill Tract Farm is the last remaining 20 acres of historic farmland in the East Bay, owned by and located near the University of California, Berkeley in Albany.

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Book A Field Trip to the Gill Track Community Farm

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Book A Field Trip to the Gill Track Community Farm

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we envision a vibrant community farm, a model of shared governance and co-stewardship that helps restore community resilience .

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The farm has reopened to walk-in volunteers. To get the most out of your volunteer experience, we recommend you sign up for a regular weekly time slot via our volunteer interest form.

Gill Tract Events Calendar

Gill Tract Community Farm 1050 San Pablo Ave

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Collaborative community-driven research, education, and extension focused on ecological farming and food justice. UC Gill Tract Community Farm.

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we envision a vibrant community farm, a model of shared governance and co-stewardship that helps restore community resilience .

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Interested in joining our community?

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The farm has reopened to walk-in volunteers. To get the most out of your volunteer experience, we recommend you sign up for a regular weekly time slot via our volunteer interest form.

Gill Tract Events Calendar

Gill Tract Community Farm 1050 San Pablo Ave

Albany CA 94706

contact@gilltractfarm.org

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101 Things to love about Oakland is a recent article about Oakland. How many of the 101 have you seen?

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Juneteenth by keaneonlibraries - a staff-created list : Great YA books to read for Juneteenth