Ekene Ijeoma’s Black Mobility and Safety: From Learning to Loving in the US course includes a series of public guest panels around living while Black. Tune in for the FINAL event of this spring, featuring Dianne M. Stewart and Joyce McMillan, on April 13 at 1pm.
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Black Mobility and Safety Seminar: Loving while Black with Dianne M. Stewart and Joyce McMillan
Dianne M. Stewart
Dianne M. Stewart is an Associate Professor of Religion and African American Studies at Emory University, specializing in African heritage religious cultures in the Caribbean and the Americas and womanist religious thought and praxis. Her recent book Black Women, Black Love: America’s War on African American Marriage (2020), expands her contributions to the field of African American Studies, and was inspired by her pedagogical investment in Black love studies and her courses, “Black Love,” “The Power of Black Self-Love,” (co-taught with Professor Dona Troka) and “Black Women, Black Love and the Pursuit of Happiness.” Intended to reach wide academic and public audiences, the book examines the structural forces that, across four centuries, have made coupling and marriage difficult, delayed or impossible for millions of Black women in the United States and reveals how White supremacy has systematically broken the heart of Black America.
Joyce McMillan
Joyce McMillan is a thought leader, advocate, activist, community organizer, and educator. Her mission is to remove systemic barriers in communities of color by bringing awareness to the racial disparities in systems where people of color are disproportionately affected. Joyce believes before change occurs the conversation about systemic oppression that creates poverty, and feeds people of color into systems must happen on all levels consistently. She completed a restorative certificate program at the New School and says change will not happen independently of healing. Her ultimate goal is to abolish systems of harm while creating concrete community resources. Joyce leads child welfare family engagement and advocacy efforts at Sinergia Inc. Prior, she was the Program Director at Child Welfare Organizing Project (CWOP) where she created a community space, to educate the community about restorative practices to empower, affirm, transform and heal communities of color that have been traumatized by systemic injustices. Joyce is an active member of The West Harlem Democrats, a board member at Families Together NYS, A board member at Women’s Prison Association (WPA), and Movement for Family Power, Co-chair W134th Community Association, a NYC County Committee Member, a Supreme Court Judicial Delegate, an Advisory Committee member at The Center for New York City Affairs (CNYCA) at The New School, where she also has a visiting fellowship, and is also a fellow at Law4Black Lives where she is exploring what it means to divest in systems while investing in communities.