We’re getting ready to go to New Orleans for the Urban Bush Women Summer Leadership Institute. This means getting ready to dive in body soul mind and spirit into some tough questions.
To prepare, we’ve been given a list of resources. Check it out – not sure I can get through all of this in such a short time – but going to make a valiant effort..
Anything else I should be checking out? And anyone want to volunteer to do an interview with me?
Articles
- “Culture of Poverty in America”
- “7th Ward Neighborhood Upset Blight Remains Despite Promised Help”
- “If I Were a Poor Black Kid”
- “Response to: ‘If I Were A Black Kid’”
- “Hold Wall Street Banks Accountable”
- “Disproportionate impact of long-term, and general, unemployment on African-Americans as compared to their white counterparts”
- “Poverty, Martin Luther King’s Last Cause”
- “The Poor, the Near Poor and You”
- “Did U.S. Tax Policies Increase Economic Inequality”
- “Judge Approves Historic Settlement for Black Farmers”
- “My Take: Five Misconceptions about Poverty in America”
- “Equality”
Websites
- The Urban Institute: Understanding Poverty
- Union Facts: Service Employees Leaders, Employees, and Salaries
- Southern Poverty Law Center
- Economy Policy Institute
- Institute on Assets and Social Policy
- U.S Census Bureau American Fact Finder
- Green Path Debt Solutions
- Art Home
- The Actors Fund Financial Services and Resources
Books
- The Rich & The Rest of Us: A Poverty Manifesto
- By Tavis Smiley & Cornel West
- The Warmth of Other Suns
- By Isabel Wilkerson
- Women and Money: Owning the Power to Control Your Destiny
- By Suze Orman
- Suze Orman’s Action Plan
- By Suze Orman
- The 9 Steps to Financial Freedom: Practical and Spiritual Steps So You Can Stop Worrying
- By: Suze Orman
Interviews
Every person who participates in the SLI is encouraged to conduct, prior to arrival in New Orleans, at least one interview with someone from your family or community about their economic journey.
- What are their opinions regarding access to opportunities?
- What are the family migration stories? How did they arrive where they are now? What facilitated or made the road difficult.
- What practices have sustained your family and /or what has made the road rough?
- What does it feel like to make and or nurture something tangible?
Each Participant is also encouraged to conduct personal research using the following questions as a guide, prior to your arrival in New Orleans.
- How do the young people in your neighborhood make money?
- What lessons or values did your family instill in you regarding money?
- If your income doubled tomorrow, what would you do? Why?
- If your income was cut in half tomorrow, what would you do and why?
Erich Ludwig 