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

  1. Article: How anti-LGBTQ sentiment is affecting Pride

  2. Pride month arrives as wave of anti-LGBTQ bills make many states less equitable

  3. 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)

  1. Article: Universal Declaration of Human Rights – Amnesty International
  2. Video: Kristen Wenz: What if a single human right could change the world? | TED Talk
  3. Video: David Miliband: The refugee crisis is a test of our character | TED Talk

October 2022 – For Indigenous People’s Month (November)

  1. Article: https://nativeamericanheritagemonth.gov/ 
  2. Video: Wampanoag culture on Martha’s Vineyard – https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OhTMH7DAheY

August 2022 – Hate Crime Reporting

July – no meeting

June 2022 Learning Exercise:  Intersectionality of Pride Month/Juneteenth

  1.  Article: Juneteenth https://www.gse.harvard.edu/news/20/06/meaning-juneteenth
  2. Video: What Gay Rights Movement Learned from Civil Rights Movement

May 2022 Learning exercise on Domestic Terrorism

  1. Article: https://www.latimes.com/opinion/story/2022-05-15/buffalo-shooting-gunman-white-supremacist-great-replacement 

  2. Video:  Christian Picciolini: My descent into America’s neo-Nazi movement — and how I got out | TED Talk

April 2022

 

February 2022  – Learning exercise: 

  1.  Read this article from The Atlantic about the riot and siege of the Capitol last week.
  2. 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 

  1.  https://pflag.org/blog/transgender-day-remembrance-2021
  2.  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)

1. Arab American Heritage Month (April):
2. Jewish American Heritage Month (May): 
3. Haitian American Heritage Month (May): 
 
April 15, 2021 Meeting – Learning exercise:  We will focus on anti-Asian racism.  Watch this Ted Talk (9min) and read this article ahead of our meeting.