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A group of people attending C21's Attention Activism Workshop stand on a city sidewalk facing the street, with their backs to the photographer's camera. They hold up their smart phones as if they were taking pictures of the street, but their phone screens are black.

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Building a community of thinkers to address the pressing issues of our time, since 1968. Through fellowships, project support, and programming, C21 provides multiple points of access and honors multiple ways of knowing to support a shared vision for the humanities.

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Book Talk: Black Feminist Resistance in Trying Times

The Reproductive Justice Collaboratory welcomes Dr. Stacie McCormick and Dr. Nessette Falu to a conversation around Black Feminist Resistance and the power of storytelling.

April 17, 11am-1pm | Kuumba Juice & Coffee, 274 E. Keefe Ave., Milwaukee | Free; 

In conjunction with Black Maternal Health Week (April 11-17), C21-sponsored Reproductive Justice Collaboratory and La Revo Books are pleased to cohost this community conversation around the role of stories in our esteemed authors’ own work. The authors will join us virtually, and we invite the community to come in to the space at Kuumba to share in this important conversation.

Free & open to the public. RSVP requested. Refreshments from Kuumba will be provided.

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    Attention Activism Toolkit, Vol. 1 emerges from C21's Story Cart: Attention, a mobile, community-based storytelling project that brings humanities practices into public spaces across Milwaukee. Developed through workshops led …

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Produced, edited, and hosted by C21 Graduate Fellows Jamee Pritchard and Yuchen Zhao.