Throughout the past two months, Action 2 News has spoken with community members every Thursday night about racism, social justice and the Power 2 Change.
"When the title came up -- ’the first Black person,’ and it comes up a lot -- then it started to sink in that I’m not only representing myself but I’m representing a culture. I’m representing a genre of people that you can’t see."
Robertson -- author, business consultant and anti-racism educator -- talks about racial literacy and implicit bias and how recognizing these gives us the Power 2 Change.
When you stereotype, Robertson says, "You end up possibly not having great relationships with people who you might have more in common with than you ever suspected.... You miss out on a lot of opportunities and all the opportunities that diversity brings."
"This savior mentality that we’ve created as a culture -- Black folks don’t need to be saved. They need to be loved, they need to be invested in, they need to be provided resources that will help them to be successful."
Davis was homeless for a time growing up, became an attorney, then judge, worked in ministry and oversaw Freedom House in Green Bay before stepping into the lead role at United Way.
Alexandra Ritchie works in higher education, in the admissions office at UW-Green Bay. Earlier this year following social justice protests, Ritchie penned a letter to her colleagues about issues of race, and ways that UWGB could have an impact on the entire student body.
"You will begin to learn things that perhaps shatter stereotypes, beliefs that are just not accurate, and give you some surprises that are pretty sweet, you know?”
The conversations she’s sharing with us are the same ones she’s having with her adult children and within the community as a self-described “change agent.”
"You will begin to learn things that perhaps shatter stereotypes, beliefs that are just not accurate, and give you some surprises that are pretty sweet, you know?”
Super Bowl champion and founder of My Brother's Keeper, Harry Sydney speaks candidly about his first memories of racism and how he believes the conversation about race can begin.
June 19 marks the date a Union general in Texas told slaves in the state that they were free. This was more than two years after President Abraham Lincoln's Emancipation Proclamation.
Before opening his barbershop, Walker cut hair out of his home. Many players would come and get their trims while discussing their lives, struggles, goals and identities. He knows many of their families and they know him because of the trust they’ve built over the years.
