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Join us for an interactive conversation about how Black Americans describe their unique relationships to urban land. Mistinguette Smith will offer a brief talk about her ten years of interviews about how Black people outside the academy describe the meanings they ascribe to their practices of land use and care, followed by a participatory conversation about how race and land shape autonomy, community, and social and environmental regeneration.
Join us August 6th & 7th for a weekend long conversation about the relationship between race and land in Alaska. The Alaska Humanities Forum is excited to invite Mistinguette Smith from the Black/Land Project to facilitate a two day intensive conversation experience.
Saturday August 6th will be specifically for BIPOC (Black, Indigenous, and People of Color) folks. Sunday August 7th will be open to everyone. Both days will include elements of storytelling, art, conversation, and connection to land and place. This will take place in the Mountain View neighborhood of Anchorage.
Register here: https://bit.ly/weareof
Mistinguette Smith will be presenting "Black/Land as Threshold: Narrating Trauma and Transcendence” as a part of the "Particularities of Black Matter: Land, Bodies, and Wellbeing" panel at the AAIHS Conference in the Mandel Center for the Humanities at Brandeis University in Waltham, MA (Mar 30-31, 2018). Join us for this panel during Session 3 on Thursday, March 30 from 1:30pm-3:15pm.
The Black/Land Project will NOT be able to present a community conversation focusing on black people’s relationship to urban, small town and rural land in Vermont on Sunday, March 5th at Goddard College, scheduled for 7:00 PM.
Mistinguette Smith will be unable to join the Undergraduate Program of Goddard College to deliver a keynote titled “Black/Land: Listening for Emergence” on Monday, March 6th.
We regret the need to cancel with such short notice.
Join Black/Land team member and geographer Allison Guess in a conversation at the Pratt Institute.
An amazing group of artists, writers, historians, and activists will be in dialogue about the search of African American spaces from a variety of perspectives.
Find more information at the link below:
https://doubleoperative.wordpress.com/symposium/
Please join us – and thousands of others from across the U.S. — at the Movement for Black Lives National Convening in Cleveland, OH.
In addition to attending the conference session, Mistinguette Smith and Tavia Benjamin will present our workshop on Black/Land in Cleveland.
This workshop is NOT about urban agriculture! This workshop is for any black Clevelander who has ever owned a home in Glenville; loved a neighborhood on the West Side; tilled a garden in a backyard in East Cleveland; skateboarded across the Mall downtown; or fished in Lake Erie.
This interactive workshop begins with a short look at the unique history of black people’s relationships to land in Cleveland’s history :
Did you know that the first black Clevelander was a well-to-do landowner?
Which black Cleveland suburb has a micro-climate uniquely suited for orchards?
When did Cleveland’s business and residential neighborhoods become racially segregated?
Then, we will discuss and map out how we would like to see land in our communities used in the future. These rich conversations weave together people who might otherwise not have met, and generate new ideas for how we can construct relationships to land and place.
Whether you attend our workshop, or have a conversation with us over lunch, we can’t wait to see you there!
Join the Black/Land Project at the 2015 CLPP Conference
From Abortion Rights to Social Justice: Building the Movement for Reproductive Freedom.
Registration is open now.
Environmental Health Watch in collaboration with Rid-All Green Partnership, and Case Western Reserve University Social Justice Institute will come together once again to present the Race, Food & Justice Conference. The theme for 2014 is Analyzing the Urban Food Movement through a Social Justice Lens. The two day conference will be held at Case Western Reserve University, April 4th – 5th, 2014.
On Saturday, April 5th, Allison Guess and Mistinguette Smith of The Black/Land Project will offer a Desire Mapping workshop. This is an opportunity for black Clevelanders to reflect on how they want to see land used in their communities in the future.
This workshop is sold out, although tickets for the Friday plenary may still be available here.
Many of us entered social change work to be of service. But what is it we serve? Sometimes, the way we do our work actually gets in the way of justice and self-determination. What would our work look like if it was specifically organized to increase the autonomy, authority and relatedness of the communities we serve?
Join Tavia Benjamin of The Black/Land Project for a conversation about how we use the principles of self-determination in our work, and how you might apply them in your work, too.
Are you going to Detroit for the Allied Media Conference? Look for Black/Land as a participant in the Research Justice track!
Black/Land team members Allison Guess and Tavia Benjamin will be discussants on the panel Tierra Y Libertad, presentingBlack/Land’s work on how black people understand and transcend the effects of historical trauma as part of organizing. Set in the context of contested public land in Detroit, Black/Land will offer a critical perspective on an aspect of organizing that is often overlooked – responding to transhistorical trauma in ways that help black people to become more self determining in the present.
We will also be at the Research Justice Network Gathering, sharing and learning with others engaged in the work oftactical, grassroots research in pursuit of social justice, and social justice movement building.
Grist magazine really understands that The Black/Land Project is about more than just agriculture: it’s about the very relationship between race and place.
Be sure to read Andrea Appleton’s interview with Black/Land founder Mistinguette Smith, “Black to the Land: Project explores connections between race and place” in the June edition of the online magazine. The interview draws the connections between U-Pick farms, redlining and the Underground Railroad.
You can find more of Appleton’s fantastic Grist posts, which focus on race and place, here.
Black/Land Projectfounder Mistinguette Smith is one of YES! Magazine’s “People We Love.”
If you missed the summer print edition, you can click here to find her story online under “People Power” at the YES! magazine website.
Join Black/Land at the Race FoodJustice Conference co-convened by Case Western Reserve University, EnvironmentalHealth Watch, Growing Powerand The RidAll“Greenin’ The Ghetto” Partnership in Cleveland, Ohio coming this April!
Speakers will include:
This conference aims to create a dialog about food, farming, race, land use, health, jobs and social justice issues. It is a collaboration between Case’s Social Justice Institute, the Milwaukee-based Growing Power Inc., and two Cleveland groups — Environmental Health Watch and the Rid-All Green Partnership, operators ofan urban farm in the Kinsman neighborhood.
Events take place from 6-9PM Thursday and Friday evening, and are free to the public. Just click here to register.
The Black/Land Project returns to Washington DC.. Hosted by HAFA-DC, Our Stories is a series of events for black organizers and community members with strong connections to DC. Each session will give you an opportunity to explore, express and share what upholds your personal connection to DC and the special places here.
Please register for one or both sessions.
A Lunch Discussion for Black Organizers
Friday April 12th, 12-2pm
Bread for the City SE
1640 Good Hope Rd. SE
Washington, DC 20020
Black/LandPresentation
Open to the Public
Saturday, April 13th, 2:30pm-5pm
Center for Green Urbanism(NEW LOCATION)
3938 Benning Road NE
Washington, DC 20019
REGISTER AT :
http://hafa412networkgathering.eventbrite.com/
Our colleagues at Healthy Affordable Food for All (HAFA) welcome you to their monthly gathering, where they explore personal stories and their impact on policy and social change work. There is something for everyone at the network gathering and all are welcome.
Join us Tuesday, March 19th at 7PM for a Conversation with The Black/Land Project at Clark University. We expect the roads to be cleared by this evening, so this workshop is still scheduled to take place.
Join us for a conversation that explores how people in America define their relationships to land, and why they are the groupmost likely to take action about issues of environmental concern. 7:00PM, Higgins Lounge, Dana Commons at Clark University.
Are you in Northampton? Listen for uson the radio during the “Black in the Valley” segment of the Bill Newman Show on WHMP. We’ll be on Monday February 25 at 6:45 PM.
Missed it? Catch the podcast here.
On the biblical Sabbath of Jubilee, slaves were set free and given leave to return to the land of their people. To African-Americans enslaved in the southern U.S., the Emancipation Proclamation surely sounded like that biblical Jubilee. On December 31, 1862 they gathered in churches– the only places they could call their own– awaiting the liberty promised on the morning to come.
This week marks the 150th observance of Watch Night to mark Freedom’s Eve. It also marks 50 years since the great African-American writer James Baldwin wrote the essay “My Dungeon Shook: Letter to my nephew on the one hundredth anniversary of the Emancipation,” the essay that opens his incendiary 1963 collection The Fire Next Time.
On January 2nd at 7:00PM , join author Ekwueme Michael Thelwell (The Harder They Fall), Mistinguette Smith (The Black/Land Project) and playwright Lenelle Moïse (Expatriate) at the Forbes Library in Northampton for an evening inspired by the life and work of James Baldwin. Mistinguette will read from new work-in-progress about James Baldwin, transcending historical trauma, and the Jubilee of black relationships to land.
Click here for directions to Forbes Library.
UPDATE: Missed us at BET? Can’t wait for the conference proceeding to be published? You can download our presentation “Black/Land: Other People’s Stories” from our Offerings page here!
Join us at the second Black Environmental Though Conference, September 21-23, in Minneapolis, MN. Black/Land Project founder Mistinguette Smith will join colleagues Lauret Savoy and Danyelle O’Hara for the context setting workshop “Staking a Claim: Self-Defining Black Relationships to Land.”
Please join us and other scholars, activists, farmers, artists, gardeners, environmentalists and outdoor enthusiasts from across the African diaspora in dialogues about environmental justice. There may still be some scholarship money available! Check the BET registration page for details.
HAFA-DC (Healthy Affordable Food for All), the coalition of advocates, service providers and local food advocates in Washington D.C. neighborhoods hosts a Black/Land presentation webinar, and a discussion of narrative-based organizing.
Seating is limited: contact ZCurtis@BreadForTheCity.org for more information.
Multiethnic Interracial Smith College (MISC) invites you to join in a primarily student-led symposium about How to Be an Ally.
The Black/Land Project will offer students, faculty and staff at St. Mary’s College a presentation about what we are learning about black relationships to land and place.
We will also hold a classroom presentation on “Black/Land and Sustainability” and a facilitated workshop session on “A Different American History” for students, staff and faculty to explore in depth how black relationships to land and place shape the experience of living, working and studying at St. Mary’s today.
The Black/Land Project will return toFlint, Michigan inMarch 2012 to offer two sessions of Black/Land Conversations:
In February, Black/Land conducted interviews in African-American communities in Flint. In March, Black/Land founder Mistinguette Smith will returnwith a short presentation comparingpatterns in black people’s relationships to land and place in Flint to patterns found in other black communities in theGreat Lakes area. She will then facilitate a workshop to develop black Flintonians’ vision for land use and cultivating sense of place in Flint, with an emphasis on the North Side.
Please join us. You are an important part of this story!
The events are free, but seating is limited and reservations are required.
- Thursday, March 29th. 8:30 AM. Applewood Estate.
- Saturday, March 31, 11:00 AM. Foss Avenue Baptist Church. NOTE NEW LOCATION.
Reserve your seat now. Email RSVP@BlackLandProject.org indicating the date/location you will attend.
As Flintonians prepare to reshape their city with a new municipal master plan, these workshops offer a place to get involved in deciding what relationships to land and place areimportant to you and your community.
The Black/Land Project will be conducting preliminary interviews in Washington D.C. March 3-5, 2012.
UPDATE: Were you at this workshop? Looking for the discussion question slides? We have posted them here.
Join us at the Northeast Organic Farming Association of Vermont (NOFA-VT) Winter Conference for the workshop Black/Land: New Questions.
Based on interviews with urban gardeners and rural farmers, community activists and artists, and ordinary people who tell extraordinary stories,Black/Land: New Questions begins with a slide show that describes the unique perspectives of African-American, Caribbean and African immigrants’ relationships to land and place.
In the second part of the workshop, Mistinguette Smith, Hannah Sultanand John Elder will guide small group dialogues about these relationships to land and place, and what we can learn to supportour efforts to build racially just and resilient urban/rural connections in an increasingly multicultural Vermont.
Springfield is growing more than just food in its gardens.
Join us at the Scan 360 space (11 Wilbraham Road) for dinner, and a Springfield focused discussion of black relationships to land and place. Wednesday, January 18from 5-7PM.
Black/Land will be interviewing in Petersburg NY.
The Black/Land Project will conduct individual and group interviews in Cleveland and Akron, OH.
