Truth School Announces Slate Of New Classes For Spring

The Spring session of classes at the Sojourner Truth School for Social Change Leadership has begun.  As always, all classes are free.  Classes will be held over Zoom, February through April, and will be in-person in May. In-person classes will take place throughout Western Massachusetts in Springfield, Holyoke, Amherst, Easthampton and Greenfield. All classes are taught by BIPOC people or biracial pairs. Most classes are one-session and a few are multi-sessions.  

Here is a sample of this spring’s offerings:

• Black Women Suffragists: Singing Our Story, taught by Dr. Kathy Bullock
• Mentoring Young People of Color, taught by Steven Hernandez
• Microaggressions: Death by a Thousand Cuts, taught by Amihan Jennifer Matias
• Slowing Down the Conversation: One Step Toward Cross-Racial Coalition Building, taught by Imani Romney-Rosa Chapman and Franny Silverman
• In the legacy of James Baldwin: Ta-Nehisi Coates’ and Imani Perry’s Letters to Black Boys, taught by Rose Sackey-Milligan (in person)
• Do Muslim Women Need Saving, taught by Tahirah Amatul-Wadud and Safiyah Bey (in person)
• The Middle East Without the U.S., taught by Dr. Sut Jhally and Dr. Michael Klare
• And so many more!!!
  

View the full lineup of classes and register at  https://truthschool.org/events/

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– Norma Akamatsu