THE STORY OF YOUR NAME is the September 2024 project for the Emotional Justice annual initiative, HEALING HARM | HEEDING HISTORY.

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• OUR INTENTION

• OUR APPROACH

• LISTEN TO THE VOICE-NOTES

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OUR INTENTION

To continue to build and expand the annual multi-year initiative, HEALING HARM | HEEDING HISTORY as a path to creating an ongoing practice of racial healing. This year’s project is about a learning that is loving and engaging.

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OUR APPROACH

We’re mainstreaming global racial healing with Emotional Justice to become a matter of civics, not solely justice. Why? Because civics is a matter of citizenry, and citizenry is a matter of Belonging. Belonging is a pivotal to any effective racial healing framework. With Emotional Justice, we assign ‘Belonging’ into civics.

 

With our work, storytelling is our strategy for systemic change. Our approach with this project breaks down as:-

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STAGE I : THE STORY

We gathered the stories of 30 names from across the Continent and the Diaspora using voice-notes and our oral history repository partner, TheirStory. The voice-notes were….

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• From the Continent – Ghana, Nigeria, South Sudan, South Africa, Egypt, Ethiopia.

• From the UK – London, Birmingham, Scotland:

• From the Caribbean - Jamaica.

• From the USA – New York, Detroit, Louisiana, Nebraska, Mississippi, Arkansas.

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STAGE II : THE STRATEGY

The Story of Your Name offers an entry, a path and a process to engage civics as ‘Belonging’ with curiosity, discovery, beauty, family, humor, tradition, tribe as lesson, legacy and a centering of those who are traditionally marginalized.

 

STAGE III : THE SYSTEMIC CHANGE

We engage these stories to develop creative curricula via digital modules for the world of civics creatingmulti-sector education.