Recognizing that education is a key ingredient to understanding people whose lives are different from our own, the NPFH Committee begins each meeting with a “Learning Exercise”. Committee members are asked to come to meetings having watched videos or read articles in preparation for open sharing of thoughts on those materials.
We would like to share these materials with you.
June 2023 – Pride and Juneteenth
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Pride month arrives as wave of anti-LGBTQ bills make many states less equitable
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Video: Henry Louis Gates Jr. on the significance and history of Juneteenth
April 2023 – Arab American Heritage Month/Autism Awareness Month/Victims Rights Month
Learning Exercise: Yom Hashoah
a. Article: Increase in Anti-Semitism – ADL Report 2022 https://www.adl.org/resources/report/audit-antisemitic-incidents-2022
b. Article: New England Holocaust Memorial in Boston https://www.nehm.org/the-memorial/history/
c. Video: Virtual Tour of New England Holocaust Memorial in Boston https://my.matterport.com/show/?m=Z9pe3kAfuTi
November 2022 – For Human Rights Month (December)
- Article: Universal Declaration of Human Rights – Amnesty International
- Video: Kristen Wenz: What if a single human right could change the world? | TED Talk
- Video: David Miliband: The refugee crisis is a test of our character | TED Talk
October 2022 – For Indigenous People’s Month (November)
- Article: https://
nativeamericanheritagemonth. gov/ - Video: Wampanoag culture on Martha’s Vineyard – https://www.youtube.com/watch?
v=OhTMH7DAheY
September 2022 – For Hispanic Heritage Month
August 2022 – Hate Crime Reporting
July – no meeting
June 2022 Learning Exercise: Intersectionality of Pride Month/Juneteenth
- Article: Juneteenth https://www.gse.harvard.edu/
news/20/06/meaning-juneteenth - Video: What Gay Rights Movement Learned from Civil Rights Movement
May 2022 Learning exercise on Domestic Terrorism
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Video: Christian Picciolini: My descent into America’s neo-Nazi movement — and how I got out | TED Talk
April 2022
March 2022 Women’s History Month
February 2022 – Learning exercise:
- Read this article from The Atlantic about the riot and siege of the Capitol last week.
- https://www.theatlantic.com/
ideas/archive/2021/01/ multiracial-democracy-55- years-old-will-it-survive/ 617585/
January 2022 – Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. + Black History Month
December, 2021 –The December Dilemma
November 2021 – Transgender Day of Remembrance
- https://pflag.org/blog/
transgender-day-remembrance- 2021 - https://www.ted.com/talks/
jackson_bird_how_to_talk_and_ listen_to_transgender_people
October 2021 – Indigenous Peoples’ Day
June 10, 2021 Meeting – Learning Exercise for Juneteenth
May 13, 2021 Meeting – Learning exercise: Watch the following which includes 3 links about 3 different heritage months from April and May (we covered AAPI last month)