Next up? The Rise of Jim Crow - More than A Month Black History Series - Diamond Strategies

"Inspiring, Achieving, and Celebrating Inclusion"

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Online Zoom Masterclass January 14, 2020 Time: 5:30PM – 7:00PM PST View this in your browser

Led by award-winning historian, diversity, equity, inclusion leader, and motivational speaker, Matthew C. Whitaker, Ph.D.

"All History is a Current Event." ~ John Henrik Clarke

Learn what you have always wanted to know in an intimate and positive space!

This interactive ten week webinar series will allow Black lives to speak, inspire, and instruct our way forward. Anyone interested in understanding the contemporary fight for racial justice, will not want to miss it. This webinar series will pay particular attention to the ways in which Black people have resisted forces that have marginalized and dehumanized them, while helping build a dynamic society based upon cultural pluralism. We will begin with pre-colonial Africa, and the trans-Atlantic slave trade, American slavery, emancipation, and reconstruction eras. We will then explore Jim Crow segregation, World War I, the Great Depression, the New Deal, Harlem Renaissance, and World II. We will conclude with the civil rights, hip hop, Barack Obama, and Black Lives Matter generations.

Throughout the course, we will examine migration processes, Black organizations, leaders, and the roles faith, class, gender, and sexual orientation have played within Black communities, and the emergence of Black culture as a powerful force in global society. 

Dates and Themes 

11/19   Pre-Colonial Africa 12/03   Atlantic Slave Trade 12/17   Chattel Slavery 12/30   Emancipation 01/14   Jim Crow and World I 01/28   The “New Deal” 02/11   Harlem Renaissances 02/25  World War II 03/11   Civil Rights Movement 03/25   hip hop, Barack Obama and Black Lives Matter

Diamond Strategies is a premier, NMSDC MBE certified diversity, equity, inclusion, community relations, employee learning and executive leadership training provider to Fortune 500 companies in the United States, Europe, Africa and China.  Our specialties include: Master Planning, Facilitation and Training, including industry Training-of-Trainers, (TOT), Interest-Based-Resolution (IBR), Transformative Speaking, Community Relations, and Thought Leadership. Our consultants are distinguished and globally experienced diversity and inclusion experts, offering services to schools, non-profits, corporations, faith-based organizations municipalities, and community groups. Our mission is to be your partner in a larger effort to maximize our human and institutional potential. Questions? Contact us here: Diamond Strategies or call us at 480-252-0639.  

Images: Esther Bubley; Matthew C. Whitaker, Elaine Kessler Photography, Getty, AP, and Sierra Blanco Photography.