The Smashcasters had an opportunity to meet with One Web Day’s Executive Director and produced this video about how they see the digital divide manifested in their communities and some strategies for overcoming it.
For 3 days in September of this year, Tides hosted its Momentum conference at the W hotel in San Francisco. The basic gist behind momentum is that it ”brings together some of the world’s most innovative thinkers and dedicated activists to challenge, inspire, and energize each other.”
In this day and age, where equality is the word of the year, can it be true that America is still holding on to the racist roots of its previous generations? Although it may be a hard fact to face, places, like Charleston, Mississippi, continue the abomination that is racial segregation. In this interview, we talk to two of the students from Charleston High School in Mississippi, where, believe it or not, they still hold segregated proms!
WOAH!!!
Some people claim that racism in the U.S. has dissolved over time, but recently it has come to our attention that there are still marks of racism being imprinted in our nation’s history. Up until last year, Charleston High School in Mississippi had been having two separate proms: the “white” prom and the “black” prom. In the movie “Prom Night in Mississippi” Paul Saltzman tells the story of how home town-native Morgan Freeman offers to pay for their 2008 prom, as long as it was a single-integrated prom.
Hey everyone! Devonna, Juan, Monica and Trevor walked from the Level Playing Field Institute to San Francisco’s City Hall. Today, November 15th, 2008, approximately ten-thousand people gathered to protest against California’s Proposition 8, banning the rights of same-sex marriage. We hope you enjoy the video!
