In honor of Black History Month, we invite you to join us for Our Voices, Our Lives, a spoken word event celebrating our Umoja community.  This space for sharing, healing, reflection, respectful expression of emotion, and celebrating ourselves and our history.  

 

 

Join us in Zoom on Wednesday, February 17 starting at 6:00 pm to support our speakers and celebrate our community.  

 

We also invite you to create and share a poem or story with us.  Pick a minimum of five words from the following list to include in the piece that you share:

Abolitionist Equality Racism Laborer

Advocate Injustice Prejudice Bias

Oppression Heritage Segregation

Integrity Discrimination Emancipation

Feel free to use this creative writing template to help you craft your piece.

We ask that you please submit your piece in advance to umoja@mpc.edu.  Also, if you write something but are a little hesitant to share in front of the group, we can make sure to have someone read it for you.  Please just let us know if you’d like it to be anonymous.