Justice and Equity Town Hall Forum – Additional Resources
Black Lives Matter, Liza Donnelly, 2020. All Rights Reserved
As part of an important community conversation on current events and the power of collaboration to create a more inclusive community we would like to share resources for how to be better informed.
Stay tuned for the recording which will be posted here after the live event on June 11.
- Jenn Smith (moderator), Community engagement editor and education reporter at The Berkshire Eagle
- Brooke Bridges, Founder and CEO of Building Bridges SEL
- Liza Donnelly, Illustrator and Author, Cartoonist for Peace
- Gwendolyn VanSant, CEO and Co-Founding Director of BRIDGE, New Pathways Talks and Labs
- Laurie Norton Moffatt, Director and CEO of the Norman Rockwell Museum
- Roberta McCulloch Dews, Education Chair of the Norman Rockwell Museum Board of Trustees, and Director of Administrative Services, Mayor’s Office at City of Pittsfield
- Jerry Pinkney, Illustrator and Author, Caldecott Winner, and Coretta Scott King Book Award Winner
To continue the conversation, here are some resources you might find useful and thought-provoking.
For resources from National Museum of African American History & Culture for talking about race click here.
Learn more from the Berkshire County NAACP here.
The “Contemporary” Racial Conscience and Sensitivity of Norman Rockwell
June 11, 2020 – Written By: Louis Henry Mitchell – Creative Director of Character Design, Sesame Workshop, and Norman Rockwell Museum Trustee
The 1960s would prove to be the opening of the floodgates of Rockwell’s love and concern for all humanity. After leaving the Post in 1963 he did one of his most famous and important paintings, “The Problem We All Live With”. This symbolized a moment in the life of Ruby Bridges at six years old being escorted by U.S. Marshalls to help end segregation in a school in the South. But it was also a depiction of a moment in the state of America that still resonates to this very day and moment. READ THE ESSAY>
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