Prince George’s County Public Hearing on Lynching
Braxton Institute Community Fellow, Jordan Chadwick, joins the Maryland Lynching Truth and Reconciliation Commission and Prince George’s County Lynching Memorial Project for this public hearing at Bowie State University and virtually.

Reparations for Lakeland Now! Information Party
What a fantastic time we had celebrating Lakeland’s inspiring history of resistance and vibrant community!

The Braxton Institute created an awesome evening of celebration and information sharing. We celebrated the Restorative Justice Commissioners and other remarkable leaders who have been “making a way out of no way. ”

We announced the forthcoming publication of “From Harm to Hope: A Documentation of the Fight to Survive Urban Renewal, Gentrification, and Exclusionary Development in Lakeland and the Search for Solutions,” by Bi’Anncha Andrews, as commissioned by the Braxton Institute.

Chic Events Venue
Bowie, Maryland

TOWN HALL: Legacy Percussion, Shadows of Lakeland
Performance of  original composition honoring the history and people of Lakeland 
The Clarice Smith Performing Arts Center
University of Maryland, College Park

RJ Book Club with Nkechi Taifa                          Reparations On fire, How and Why it's Spreading Across America
Dr. Joanne M. Braxton, Braxton, Virtual Moderator

Register here.

#REPARATIONS4LAKELANDNOW

Community Convening - Part II

9:30 to 11 am —Restorative Practices, by invitation (sign up)

Introduction to Braxton Institute Model for Collective Healing from Collective Trauma

Sitting Meditation/Walking Meditation/Tools for stress-reduction/Narrative Humility (Joanne Braxton, Keith Webster)

1:00-3:30 —Organizing for Repair, by invitation (sign up)

Location: TBA

4:00-6:00 pm — TOWN HALL

RESTORATIVE ACTION: WHAT AND HOW?
Nkechi Taifa, Esq., movement leader and author of Reparations On fire, How and Why it is Spreading Across America, will speak on the historic, international, andnational contexts for reparative action today, with a special view to her recent testimony before the United Nations in Geneva, Switzerland.

 Rev. Dale Snyder of Bethel AME Church in Pittsburgh, will share how his church used reparative action to get land seized by imminent domain returned to this historic congregation. He will share this model for repair and its possible relevance to Lakeland.

Mr. Corey Shaw, Jr. represents Empower DC, “an organization that advances racial, economic and social justice by investing in the leadership and organized political power of DC’s lowest income residents and communities.” As volunteer Director of Community Engagement and Strategic Planning for the African American Redress Network, Mr. Shaw assists with local level reparations efforts across the United States. He will speak on his organizing efforts for the Barry Farm and Chevy Chase communities in the District of Columbia.

Mayor Daniel Biss of Evanston, Illinois, will share a recorded message of encouragement for Lakeland and College Park from his viewpoint as mayor of a municipality that has successfully achieved some measure of reparative justice.

 Moderator, Rev. Dwight Cokely, Embry AME Church

Respondent, Dr. Joanne M. Braxton Professor Emeritus, William & Mary, President of the board Braxton Institute for Sustainability, Resiliency and Joy and 4th generation Lakelander.

Embry AME Church, 5101 Lakeland Rd , Rev. Tish Cokely, Senior Pastor, College Park, Maryland, 20740.

Sunday, May 19. Guest preacher, Rev. Dale Snyder. Embry A.M.E. Church.

Conclusion of convening events.

Reckon, Repair, and Heal: A Lakeland Community Convening
Lakeland Community Stakeholders meet to respond to proposals for future development and build consensus for Reparations. This is a critical moment and all Lakelanders are urged to attend.

College Park Community Center - Lakeland Room
5051 Pierce Ave
College Park, MD 20740

Co-sponsored with Lakeland Civic Association.

TOWN HALL: Lakeland and Root Shock  Dr. Mindy Fullilove
Author, educator and social psychiatrist Mindy Fullilove will discuss her book Root Shock and its relevance to Lakeland and the call for Restorative Action
Washington Brazilian Seventh Day Adventist Church, 8108 54th Avenue