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Rising Up: The Power of Narrative in Pursuing Racial Justice with Sonali Kolhakar Workshop
October 20, 2023 @ 7:00 pm - 8:30 pm
| Donation 5.00
Award-winning multimedia journalist and author Sonali Kolhatkar leads a workshop for nonprofit organizers, communicators, publicists, and storytellers about building narrative power to further racial justice. Kolhatkar will lead a discussion on the importance of understanding the impact of narratives on racial justice, how to identify and interrogate existing racist narratives in popular culture and news media, and how to build narrative power as a critical component of organizing to further racial justice.
Kolhakar’s new book Rising Up: The Power of Narrative in Pursuing Racial Justice is a timely exploration of how truthful narratives by and about people of color can be used to advance social justice in the United States.
Sonali Kolhatkar reminds us we are the stories we tell. Our stories can cast a spell of hate, division, and fear, or they can break the powerful grip of racial injustices that have held us since our country’s beginning. With personal and collective wisdom, Kolhatkar guides us in the storytelling that liberates.”
–Luis J. Rodriguez, author of Always Running: La Vida Loco/Gang Days in L.A.
This event is a $5 suggested donation ticket with 50 max attendees. Please register in advance.
In compliance with Word Up Community Safety guidelines, all attendees are encouraged to stay masked at all time.
Recirculation, a project of Word Up Community Bookshop, is located at 876 Riverside Drive (near 160th St.) in Washington Heights, NYC. You can take the 1 train to 157th St., A/C train to 163rd St., and the M4 and M5 to Broadway and 159/160th.
ABOUT THE BOOK
While people of color are fast becoming the majority population in the United States, the perspectives of white America still dominate the vast majority of the media created and consumed every day. Media makers of color, long shut out of the decision-making process, are rising up to advance a set of different narratives, offering stories and perspectives to counter the racism and disinformation that have long dominated America’s political and cultural landscape.
In Rising Up, award-winning journalist Sonali Kolhatkar delivers a guide to racial justice narrative-setting. With a focus on shifting perspectives in news media, entertainment, and individual discourse, she highlights the writers, creators, educators, and influencers who are successfully building a culture of affirmation and inclusion.
ABOUT THE AUTHOR
Sonali Kolhatkar is the host and producer of Rising Up with Sonali, a weekly television and radio program that airs on Free Speech TV and on Pacifica Radio station affiliates around the United States. Winner of numerous awards, including Best TV Anchor and Best National Political Commentary from the LA Press Club, she is currently the Racial Justice editor at Yes! Magazine and a Writing Fellow with the Independent Media Institute. Co-author of Bleeding Afghanistan: Washington, Warlords, and the Propaganda of Silence with Jim Ingalls, Kolhatkar is Co-Director of the Afghan Women’s Mission. She resides with her husband and two sons in Pasadena, California.
