Ep 50: It's In Our Bones: Liberation and Grief

In this week’s episode, Tracie and April both react to recent experiences they have had which have deepened their consciousness or understanding around racial justice and healing. For Tracie it was a neighbor’s reaction to an activist campaign to Free Keith Davis, Jr., and for April, a weekend at a virtual Black liberation retreat. This leads them to a conversation on the need to balance the work of liberating individuals and communities from oppressive systems with also grieving the collective trauma that is caused from generations of being targeted by and struggling against these same systems. For it is only by grieving that we can become better change agents for our collective liberation. 

Check out our discussion/reflection questions for this episode: www.joyousjustice.com/blog/jews-talk-racial-justice-episode-50

Find April and Tracie's full bios and submit topic suggestions for the show at www.JewsTalkRacialJustice.com

Learn more about Joyous Justice where April is the founding and fabulous (!) director, and Tracie is a senior partner.: https://joyousjustice.com/

Read more of Tracie's thoughts at her blog, bmoreincremental.com

Learn more about Keith Davis Jr., and the campaign to free him: https://keithdavisjr.com/ 

Learn more about Troy Davis’s case and his execution: https://innocenceproject.org/troy-davis-pervis-payne-race-death-penalty/

Check out out our episode on the importance of affinity spaces here: https://joyousjustice.com/blog/jews-talk-racial-justice-ep-43

Read about the impact of the murder of George Floyd on the movement for racial justice one year out: https://www.npr.org/series/1000988747/george-floyds-murder-one-year-later