Forest Park Against Racism

08/25/2022

Worth taking a look at this effort in our community. The next meeting is on September 17 at Proviso East High School, 9AM; sign up information and additional information posted in comments section.

The Oak Park-River Forest Community Foundation has done good work for many decades. But its leaders would acknowledge it has been a challenge to explain its mission to the public, to potential donors.

06/15/2022

FPAR statement, 15 June 2022.
Text added in comments

01/31/2022

We are always down for partnering with the Forest Park Public Library, the Historical Society of Forest Park and the folks from What Is Juneteenth!

Join us all as we lift the voices that form part of this year's Black History Month. See all the events at fppl.org/blackhistorymonth.

February is almost here! The Library has teamed up with the Historical Society of Forest Park, the Illinois Juneteenth Committee (What Is Juneteenth), and Forest Park Against Racism to create a month long event series for all ages. See the full line up at fppl.org/blackhistorymonth.

07/20/2021

No to racism.
Original Post deleted. We still feel this needs to be said, over and over again.

“When someone shows you who they are, believe them the first time.”
~Maya Angelou

07/03/2021

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Thank you Historical Society of Forest Park and Forest Park Public Library

Thank you to the over 100 people who signed their name to the accountability pledge from Forest Park Against Racism as part of our “Ribbons in the Sky,” an interactive public art project.  All the ribbons will be archived at the Historical Society of Forest Park. 

Find anti-racism resources at fppl.org/juneteenth. 

06/30/2021

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The meeting followed weeks of debate over why trustees of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill had not acted on the recommendations of faculty and administrators to approve a tenured journalism faculty position for the Pulitzer Prize winner who conceived the 1619 Project for the New York....