Memories of Anne Braden
I knew Anne Braden from the mid 1970’s until her death in March 2006. Of course, I knew of her before then. She was an icon of the Civil...
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David Billings
- Dec 6, 2022
- 3 min
Embodying Advent : Love
“Cynicism is the greatest barrier to love. It is rooted in doubt and despair.” —Bell Hooks, All About Love I remember this Advent most...
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David Billings
- Jul 29, 2022
- 1 min
White Progressives Complicity With White Supremacy
I think often these days about white progressive types who feel they are "beyond racism" and move on to other matters closer to their own...
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David Billings
- May 19, 2022
- 1 min
The TEP Center Opens
In many ways it was a typical New Orleans event. People from all over the city were gathered for the ribbon-cutting of the...
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David Billings
- Mar 29, 2022
- 2 min
Lenten Meditation SPSA Church
Jesus went up the mountain to have some time alone. He was attracting more and more attention and his audience was changing—larger, more...
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David Billings
- Feb 18, 2022
- 7 min
LEARNING FROM HISTORY
PISAB Organizing with New Orleans’ St. Thomas Residents Council The People’s Institute has a set of principles that were developed some...
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David Billings
- Jul 28, 2021
- 2 min
I KNEW BOB MOSES
I knew Bob Moses. I met him several times over the years. This was often at a SOC (Southern Organizing Committee) or a meeting on Voter...
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David Billings
- Jul 16, 2021
- 1 min
Being Antiracist: Talking To White People (About Racism)
Margery Freeman is a veteran educator who has taught for decades in the public and non-profit worlds. That teaching experience has...
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David Billings
- Jul 1, 2021
- 1 min
UNDOING RACISM IN THE FOOD SYSTEM
In the innovative podcast FOOD FOR THE FUTURE, Lindsey from the World Food Forum and Sara from Kitchen Connection chat with change makers...
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David Billings
- Jun 15, 2021
- 1 min
THE PERSISTENCE OF WHITE SUPREMACY
Noted author/historian, anti-racism educator/activist and truth-teller, Rev. David Billings discusses his best-selling book, Deep Denial:...
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David Billings
- Apr 22, 2021
- 1 min
ORGANIZE AND CHANGE
David Billings, is a CORE trainer with the People's Institute for Survival and Beyond (www.pisab.org). In this video he delivers...
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David Billings
- Apr 5, 2021
- 2 min
Pardon my Screed, I mean Scream!
As the specter of the trial of George Floyd’s murderer looms over America, I wonder what it takes to preserve basic rights when it comes...
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David Billings
- Mar 28, 2021
- 4 min
Militarism - Teachings from Rev Daniel Buford
Sometime in the early 1980’s I met the Rev. Daniel Buford. I was walking down a hallway at Antioch College, inside one of its buildings,...
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Margery Freeman, anti-racist organizer/educator
- Mar 5, 2021
- 1 min
What does 'Becoming American' Mean in a White Supremacist country?
Two weeks ago, Eric Kaufmann's op-ed in the New York Times ("The Democratic Coalition is at Risk”) examined trends away from the...
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David Billings
- Feb 17, 2021
- 2 min
ODE TO DIANA DUNN – HUMAN BEING
Diana Dunn came into our lives in 1984, when she and her infant daughter Myisha moved into our home in Englewood, New Jersey. Her husband...
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David Billings
- Feb 17, 2021
- 2 min
What is Antifa Anyway?
I woke up this morning with my mind on Antifa. Can anyone out there tell me what Antifa is? Does anyone know Antifa? Is Antifa an...
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David Billings
- Jan 11, 2021
- 1 min
Why Capitalize Black but Not white?
White is a specious concept like race itself. It is wholly political and one of the primary building blocks of white supremacy in a race...
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David Billings
- Oct 16, 2020
- 1 min
Raising An Antiracist Family
What does it mean to live as an antiracist white family? This 90-minute storytelling session with David Billings, Margery Freeman, and...
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David Billings
- Sep 21, 2020
- 2 min
White People Depend On Racism
We, White People, Depend on Racism in our Everyday Lives. Is there an Alternative? Last March as the pandemic was beginning to reach our...
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David Billings
- Aug 25, 2020
- 7 min
15 years after Hurricane Katrina: How that Natural Disaster Mirrors theNational Disaster of Police
It seems like yesterday: images of New Orleanians on rooftops crying out for someone to rescue them; sleeping in the Superdome crying out...
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