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“Images & Words: Media’s Influence on the Struggle for Civil Rights” Annual MLK Birthday Observance

Rothko Chapel 3900 Yupon St, Houston

In partnership with the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston (MFAH) and The Gordon Parks Foundation, the 2023 Annual Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Birthday Observance explores the role of the media in civil rights movements past and present. Inspired by the MFAH’s current exhibition Gordon Parks: Stokely Carmichael and Black Power, panelists share their work …

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$5 – $20

29th Annual MLK Grande Parade

Midtown Houston 1200 Holman Street (San Jacinto Street @ Egin Street), Houston

The 2023-MLK Grande Parade will be held in Midtown Houston on January 16, 2023 originating on San Jacinto Street & Elgin Street beginning @ 10A (CST). To register for the parade or to learn more visit us @ www.mlkgrandeparade.org or call 713-560-8328

Free to the public

MLK Parade Houston-2023

Midtown Houston 1200 Holman Street (San Jacinto Street @ Egin Street), Houston

The MLK Grande Parade-2023 will be held in Midtown Houston on January 16, 2023 originating on San Jacinto Street & Elgin Street beginning @10A (CST). Watch live on the CW 39-Houston from 9:30A-12P (CST). For more information log on to www.mlkgrandeparade.org

Free to the public

Annual MLK PARADE hOUSTON-2023

TX

The MLK Grande Parade-2023 will be held in Midtown Houston on January 16, 2023 originating on San Jacinto Street & Elgin Street beginning @ 10A (CST). The parade will be televised by Houston's CW 39 from 9:30A-12P(CST). For more information visit us @ www.mlkgrandeparade.org

Free

International Holocaust Remembrance Day

Center for the Healing of Racism 3412 Crawford Street (@ Holman), Houston, TX

PLEASE NOTE:  TIME CHANGED TO 12:00-2:00 PM Please join us for a program in commemoration of International Holocaust Remembrance Day on Friday, January 27, 2023, 12:00-2:00 pm at the Center for the Healing of Racism, 3412 Crawford Street, Houston, TX 77004. International Holocaust Remembrance Day, or the International Day in Memory of the Victims of …

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Free. Donations appreciated. RSVP required:

Confronting Climate Gridlock

Online TX

Confronting climate change will require interconnected efforts to improve technologies, policy, and diplomacy. Professor Dan Cohan of Rice University will explore the interconnections between domestic and international efforts and market-based and policy approaches to accelerate the pursuit of clean energy and slow global warming. Drawing on lessons from his recently published book, Confronting Climate Gridlock: …

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Free

Dialogue: Racism

Center for the Healing of Racism 3412 Crawford Street, Houston, TX

The Center for the Healing of Racism will present Dialogue: Racism, a two-day intensive workshop that educates participants about racism and facilitates the process by which they can begin to counter the effects of racism on their lives, empowering them to interrupt the cycle of racist attitudes. The workshop provides a safe, respectful and loving …

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Free. Donations appreciated. RSVP required:

“The Long Struggle to Abolish Reproductive Slavery” with Dorothy Roberts Annual Frances Tarlton “Sissy” Farenthold Endowed Lecture in Peace, Social Justice and Human Rights

Rothko Chapel 3900 Yupon St, Houston

The Rothko Chapel and the Bernard and Audre Rapoport Center for Human Rights and Justice at the University of Texas at Austin present the eighth annual Sissy Farenthold Lecture featuring acclaimed scholar of race, gender and the law, Dorothy Roberts, George A. Weiss University Professor of Law and Sociology and the Raymond Pace and Sadie …

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Free

Dialogue: Racism

Center for the Healing of Racism 3412 Crawford Street, Houston, TX

The Center for the Healing of Racism will present Dialogue: Racism, a two-day intensive workshop that educates participants about racism and facilitates the process by which they can begin to counter the effects of racism on their lives, empowering them to interrupt the cycle of racist attitudes. The workshop provides a safe, respectful and loving …

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Free. Donations appreciated. RSVP required:

Beach Clean-Up

Seawolf Park 100 Seawolf Park Blvd., Galveston, TX, TX

Calling people of all faiths, or no faith at all, to care for our shared environment!  We will remove trash polluting a shoreline along Galveston Bay at Seawolf Park in Galveston, helping to protect and restore the beautiful bay ecosystem. This event will offer activities for all ages and skill levels, so bring the whole family! Supplies …

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Free

Reconnecting Communities after a Natural Disaster

Online TX

Join Dr. Brett Perkison of the University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston for a discussion of the effects that repeated record flooding due to climate change can have on local communities – often having more impact on lower socioeconomic communities who have less flood control measures put in place and have less resilience …

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Free

Student-Led Resistance to Voter Suppression, Then and Now

Center for the Healing of Racism 3412 Crawford Street (@ Holman), Houston, TX

The history of voter suppression efforts on HBCU campuses is long and ugly, but there is an equally long history of student-led resistance.  Please join the Center for the Healing of Racism on Monday, February 27, 2023, 6:00 to 8:00 PM (on Zoom), to hear Prairie View A&M professor Ron Goodwin, Ph.D. discuss the history …

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Free. Donations appreciated. RSVP required:

Dialogue on the Plantations

Center for the Healing of Racism 3412 Crawford Street, Houston, TX

Please join the Center for the Healing of Racism for the 5th annual Dialogue on the Plantation, March 11-12, 2023. We will travel together by bus to experience a powerful tour of three Louisiana plantations.  Our first stop on will be St. Joseph Plantation, a working sugar cane plantation east of New Orleans. Oprah Winfrey’s hit …

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$520 – $8226

Jubilee House Community in Nicaragua, part of Center for Development in Central America.

Live Oak Friends Meeting House 1318 W. 26th, Houston, TX

JHC-CDCA in NicaraguaSarah Woodward has presented before about Jubilee House Community and its work in Nicaragua as part of Center for Development in Central America. She will have a 20-25 minute powerpoint presentation, and then we'll have time for Q&A as you wish.  If you've been hearing strange things about Nicaragua, this is your chance to …

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ZEE CLARKE OFFERS TOOLS AND SUPPORT FOR BIPOC COMMUNITIES WITH THE LAUNCH OF HER NEW BOOK, BLACK PEOPLE BREATHE, AT HOUSTON MUSEUM OF AFRICAN AMERICAN CULTURE

Houston Museum of African American Culture 4807 Caroline St, Houston, TX

WHO:  Zee Clarke is a Harvard MBA and mindfulness and breathwork expert for BIPOC communities.     After spending more than 20 years leading teams at Fortune 500 companies and tech startups in Silicon Valley, Zee realized that mindfulness and breathwork were much more powerful outside of the yoga studio and in the context of our …

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Event Series Houston Women’s Group: Weekly Meeting

Houston Women’s Group: Weekly Meeting

First Unitarian Universalist Church 5200 Fannin St., Houston, TX

THE HOUSTON WOMEN’S GROUP is a diverse multi-generational feminist group for all women identified women, that meets every Sunday at 10:30 a.m. at the First Unitarian Universalist Church, 5200 Fannin at Southmore Blvd., 2nd floor, room #201 (elevator accessible). Each woman defines her own feminism. After the group adjourns at 12 noon we gather at a nearby restaurant to enjoy a meal and further conversation. Other events occur at various other times. This is a feminist group, not a religious church affiliated one.

Free