Year: 2021

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Fall 2021 CCBC at Temple

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Starting October 21st, we are offering our Community Capacity-Building Curriculum through Temple University’s Pan-African Studies Continuing Education Program (PASCEP). We will facilitate this in a hybrid format to accommodate both real people in-person as well as virtual guests. The course begins on Thursday, October 21st and runs weekly through Nov 19. If you’re interested in more info, see our syllabus below. You can also register for the course here: https://noncredit.temple.edu/search/publicCourseSearchDetails.do?method=load&courseId=77800421 (FYI to join us for the in-person piece, you’ll be asked to show your vaccination card.)

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[this is:] OUR DAY, by Hakim Ali

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August 7th, 2021

WE HAVE JOINED EACH OTHER TO EMBRACE THIS DAY

WE ARE LEARNING HOW TO KEEP NEGATIVETY AWAY

WE JOINED WITH EACH OTHER IN LOVE & DEVOTION

WE CARE ABOUT EACH OTHER, SO WE SEEK A SOLUTION

THE “CCBC” IS A LIVING & ACTIVE THING

IT IS SOMETHING THAT MAKES THE HEARTS & SOULS OF OUR ANCESTORS SING

WE FOUND OUT THAT WE HAVE A LOT IN COMMON

WE LAUGHED, CRIED AND RELATED TO OUR UNION

THIS WAS TRULY A DAY TO BE REMEMBERED

A DAY WHEN INDIVIDUAL PEOPLE BECAME DEDICATED MEMBERS

IT BEGAN AND ENDED WITH RECOGNIZING WHAT WAS RIGHT

IT BEGAN AND ENDED WITH SEEKING AND FINDING THE LIGHT

SO, WE LEAVE BETTER THAN WE CAME

WE LEAVE AS BROTHERS & SISTERS OF THE SAME NAME:

                        RECONSTRUCTION INCORPORATED

Peace,

Hakim ‘Ali

(8-7-21)

{This poem was conceived, written and shared this day “during the actual teach in” at Owl Community Center. CCBC refers to Community Capacity Building Curriculum.}

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Comprehensive Service Provider Directory

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In July, the Defender Association of Philadelphia‘s Pre-Entry Coalition published an enormous Partner Directory that gathers together “a city-wide network of organizations providing essential services in Philadelphia who are committed to creating community responses as alternatives to the criminal legal system“(from their Mission Statement). Partner orgs offer help with all of the following:

  • Case Management
  • Drug & Alcohol Treatment
  • Education & Employment Services
  • Food & Clothing
  • Housing
  • Legal Services
  • Medical Services
  • Mental & Behavioral Health Services
  • Mentorship
  • Parenting
  • Peer Support/Hotline
  • Other / Miscellaneous

Please download a printable copy here (Updated 7/02/21):

Pre-Entry-Partner-Directory-July-2021Download

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Summer 2021 CCBC Teach-Ins

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Below are photos from our first Teach-In on Pillar I (July 24th). Learn more about our Community Capacity Building Curriculum here. Our second Teach-In was August 7th, and the final one will be August 21st.

Left to Right: Raymond Drayton, Alan Lewandowski, Paul Mack, Catharina Schürenberg, Dr Latisha Webb, Ulicia Lawrence-Oladeinde, Jamal Black, William Goldsby, Martha Williams, Ben Felker-Quinn
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Recon II Publishes Article in Du Bois Review

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Feb, 2021 Issue

Reconstruction II members Townsand Price-Spratlen, Joseph Guzman, and Charles Patton collaborated with William Goldsby to write “Reconstruction Has Stopped the Nonsense: Documentary Making in the Community Capacity Building of Returning Citizens.” Published online in the Feb, 2021 issue of the Du Bois Review, the article expands on Reconstruction’s collaborative video documentary with Scribe Video Center, which you can watch yourself over on Reconstruction’s History page.

Find the article’s text posted below. Big thanks to all the authors for allowing us to publish it here!