Program Year 2024-25
These are our current course offerings. All are free, and materials will be provided. Please feel free to register and join in at any time.
Policing the Black Experience
April 5 - May 10, 2025
Taught by Dr. Deonte Hollowell, this class will be offered Saturdays, starting 4/5 for six weeks. A flyer and such will be coming out as soon as we lock on the location (it's going to be offered hybrid).
"This course explores the historic implications associated with African American relationships with US systems of authority. Students will learn about the social, political, and economic implications of American policing on Black communities, starting with the policing of enslaved Africans in the United States."
The Many Faces of Social Work Panel Discussion
March 26, 2025 8pm ET
Social work is a diverse and dynamic profession that spans countless fields. You’ll find social workers in hospitals, policymaking, child welfare, mental health care, community organizing, schools, and beyond.
Join us for a conversation with social workers from various settings as we explore the many roles they play and the impact they make in different spaces.
The Conquest of Bread
March 20 - April 24, 2025.
Dr. Deb Conrad leads this discussion of Peter Kropotkin’s 1892 book on Anarchism with conversation of what this might mean and how it might look today. Kropotkin was a Russian prince who renounced his title and dedicated himself to the wellbeing of all. We’ll read it together chapter by chapter, and while a discussion guide will be provided, discussion will go wherever the group leads. Can’t wait to get started? Here’s the free pdf: https://files.libcom.org/files/Peter%20Kropotkin%20-%20The%20Conquest%20of%20Bread_0.pdf
Parenting Toward Abolition
March 6 - April 3, 2025
Facilitated by Khalilah Collins and Lizz Perkins, this course explores the intersections of parenting, community care, and abolitionist principles. It provides caregivers with the tools to raise children in ways that challenge punitive systems and nurture liberation. We’ll read together We Grow Our World Together: Parenting Toward Abolition by Maya Schenwar & Kim Wilson.
✅Collective Rest Series
beginning Feb 5, 12-1 pm
This is an opportunity to support each other in resting, facilitated by Dr. Aishia Brown and Khalilah Colllins.
Log on and join us for a short meditation practice and then spend the next 45 minutes in unguided rest, leisure, and/or whatever brings you joy and promotes rest and rejuvenation.
✅Faith in the Face of Empire
Jan 23-Feb 12, 2025
Dr. Deb Conrad leads this discussion of Palestine theologian Mitri Rehab’s 2014 book subtitled “The Bible through Palestinian Eyes.” With Israel and the US Christian Right insisting on a “biblical” approach to the reality in Palestine, it would be helpful to read those texts from someone else’s vantage point. Dr. Raheb is a Christian pastor and Founder and President of Dar al-Kalima University in Bethlehem. As is Deb’s practice, we’ll read it together chapter by chapter, and while a discussion guide will be provided, discussion will go wherever the group leads.
✅The Leadership of Tupac Shakir
Oct 21 - Nov 25, 2024. Dr. Deonte Hollowell of Spalding University’s African American Studies program leads this provocative exploration of rapper and cultural icon Tupac Shakur — his poetry, his life, his impact and legacy. Dr. Hollowell is a graduate of the University of Louisville and Temple University, with study focus on the relationship between African Americans and the police.
✅PROJECT 2025
Oct 9 - Nov 20, 2024.
In collaboration with Louisville SURJ (Showing Up for Racial Justice), we are happy to host this series on Project 2025, the right-wing master plan for US regression. Progress is always slow, but this program would turn the tide and pull us all under.