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Thursday, January 28, 2021 at 07:00 PM Berlin Time · 30 rsvps
ZoomTea Time
AAPI Networking
We’re holding our first ever networking event for Asian Americans and Pacific Islanders living overseas. Come get acquainted, swap stories, and find your community!
We’ll be doing short introductions, a question of the day, and a speed round of meet and greet! If there’s anything you want to do, achieve, or find - let us know, or bring it up in the meeting.
Don’t forget your snacks, your beverage of choice, and of course, your microphone.
And if you need some inspiration for your tea choices, check out these new tea based cocktails from Saveur.
RSVP below to get the Zoom link!
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Saturday, February 06, 2021 at 09:00 AM Berlin Time · 55 rsvps
Zoom-OnlineBlack History Month Marathon
The event is under construction but please feel free to RSVP. It's going to be a great event. Please RSVP to receive the Zoom link.
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Wednesday, February 17, 2021 at 07:30 PM Berlin Time · 11 rsvps
Online - ZoomBlack History Month Jeopardy
Join the Global Black Caucus for a fun event. We'll be playing Black History Month themed Jeopardy game.
"Jeopardizing" a white supremacist curriculum was created by Katrina Spencer, Librarian for African American and African Studies at the University of Virginia, Charlottesville. Modeled closely on Alex Trebek’s classic, weekday television show, players -- Black, white and other-- will compete for prizes in responding to over 50 trivia prompts that center Blackness.
We have enough questions to play at least three full games including "Final Jeopardy."
If you would like to be a contestant, please fill out this form: https://forms.gle/wrN3sjsf3Dn1W8EJ7
If you would like to be in the audience, please RSVP to receive the zoom link.
Event Start Time
Location Local Time Vancouver, Canada Pacific Standard Time 10:30 am Washington DC Eastern Standard Time 1:30 pm London, UK GMT 6:30 pm Paris, France Central European Standard Time 7:30 pm Athens, Greece Eastern European Standard Time 8:30 pm Nairobi, Kenya (GMT+3) 9:30 pm UAE (GMT+4) 10:30 pm
How to play Jeopardy
- Play individually or in groups.
- Pick a category and a point value.
- Click on the chosen box for the question.
- You must give the answer in the form of a question before clicking again.
- Continue until all questions have been answered. The person with the most points wins.
Watch an example round of Jeopardy
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Sunday, February 21, 2021 at 02:00 PM Berlin Time · 21 rsvps
ZoomBook Abroad Reads Wayward Lives, Beautiful Experiments
Books Abroad, The Global Women’s Caucus feminist reading group, is pleased to announce its pick for Black History Month.
Wayward Lives, Beautiful Experiments by Saidiya Hartman explores the revolution of black intimate life in Philadelphia and New York at the beginning of the twentieth century by examining the untold history of women who led “wayward” lives and rejected respectability in response to being denied access to the American Dream.
“In wrestling with the question of what a free life is, many young black women created forms of intimacy and kinship that were indifferent to the dictates of respectability and outside the bounds of the law. They cleaved to and cast-off lovers, exchanged sex to subsist and revised the meaning of marriage. Longing and desire fueled their experiments in how to live. They refused to labor like slaves or to accept degrading conditions of work.”
It is a unique, genre-bending work that is deeply researched and melds history to the literary imagination.
Key historical figures like Ida B. Wells, W. E. B. Du Bois and Billie Holiday make appearances, but Hartman’s narrative focuses on lesser-known women who have been overlooked historically and are usually invisible in official archives.
This is sure to be an engaging discussion that will hopefully spark conversation about a rarely discussed aspect of Black history. We look forward to seeing you there!RSVP to receive the zoom link.Event Start Time by LocationWashington DC, USA 08:00 EST London, United Kingdom 13:00 GMT Frankfurt, Germany 14:00 CET Athens, Greece 15:00 EET Dubai, United Arab Emirates 17:00 GST Bangkok, Thailand 20:00 ICT -
Sunday, February 21, 2021 at 05:00 PM Berlin Time · 50 rsvps
ZoomBHM - John Lewis: Good Trouble Film Screening
21 February is John Lewis' birthday. In his honor, we will be screening the documentary John Lewis: Good Trouble. After the film will have a discussion.
Watch the trailer:
RSVP to receive the Zoom link.
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Monday, February 22, 2021 at 12:00 PM Eastern Time (US & Canada) · 28 rsvps
Zoom - ONLINEproDA Book Club: Black Reconstruction in America - W.E.B. Du Bois
Date:Monday, February 22, 2021
Time: 12pm - 1:30pm ET (Washington DC time)
Book: Black Reconstruction in America - W.E.B. Du BoisBook Discussion
For February, the Pro DA Book Club will honor Black History month and replace the planned book The Force of NonViolence: An ethico-political bind, Judith Butler, 2020 with 3 chapters from W.E.B. Du Bois’s Black Reconstruction in America. (Chapter I: The Black Worker; Chapter XVI: Back Toward Slavery; Chapter XVII: The Propaganda of History).All are welcome to attend the February proDA Book Club meeting on February 22, 2021, 12-1:30pm Washington DC (ET) time. Join us!
“This book is a history of the Reconstruction era first published in 1935. It marked a significant break with the standard academic view of Reconstruction at the time which contended that the period was a failure and downplayed the contributions of African Americans. Du Bois argued directly against these accounts, emphasizing the role and agency of blacks during the Civil War and Reconstruction and framing it as a period that held promise for a worker-ruled democracy to replace a slavery-based plantation economy.”
Participants need to know that if there are access, affordability, etc. problems for a book/books, they should contact co-leaders, John Esteban Rodriguez and Betsy Ettorre (prodabookclub@democratsabroad.org) who will help them with the listed books.
Learn more about the proDA Book Club.