BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:-//events.la.psu.edu//EN CALSCALE:GREGORIAN BEGIN:VTIMEZONE TZID:America/New_York BEGIN:STANDARD DTSTART:20201101T020000 TZOFFSETFROM:-0400 TZOFFSETTO:-0500 RRULE:FREQ=YEARLY;BYMONTH=11;BYDAY=1SU END:STANDARD BEGIN:DAYLIGHT DTSTART:20200308T020000 TZOFFSETFROM:-0500 TZOFFSETTO:-0400 RRULE:FREQ=YEARLY;BYMONTH=3;BYDAY=2SU END:DAYLIGHT END:VTIMEZONE BEGIN:VEVENT UID:4371-e51c80f8100ddb355f778a8a1d980c5a@events.la.psu.edu DTSTAMP:20260511T064717Z DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20220414T160000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20220414T160000 SUMMARY:Humanities Institute Event Honoring V.P. Franklin DESCRIPTION:\nDuring this event\, Dr. V.P. Franklin will be presented wi th our 2020 Outstanding Alumni Award (delayed due to pandemic circumstan ces)\, and will deliver our annual Celebrate the Humanities lecture\, &l dquo\;Reparations\, Reparatory Justice\, and Youth Activism in the Twent y-First Century.&rdquo\; Additionally\, we will celebrate the donation o f Dr. Franklin&rsquo\;s papers to the University Libraries at Penn State .\n\nThe participation of youth was essential for the success of private and public school desegregation\, organized boycotts\, and marches and protests during the civil rights campaigns. The children and teenagers c ame to understand that they would be primary beneficiaries of the breakd own of barriers to educational institutions\, employment opportunities\, and economic advancement. They also joined the protest because non-part icipation meant the continuing of the racial status quo and thus they ha d much to gain and little to lose. The chant was for &ldquo\;Freedom Now !&rdquo\; In the early twenty-first century\, there is a pressing need t o repair the damage that racial discrimination and exclusion has done to African Americans and other people of color\, creating huge disparities in wealth\, income\, health conditions\, and mortality rates. Reparatio ns demands are being made upon the local\, state\, and federal governmen ts\, public and private schools\, religious institutions\, and capitalis t corporations. And given the damage done to the air\, land\, and water by the fossil fuel and other capitalist industries\, reparatory justice campaigns are needed to prevent more catastrophic climate changes and to repair the damage to the physical environment that has already been don e. Much is owed to the young people and their chant should be &ldquo\;Re parations Now!&rdquo\;\n\nFor more details: https://events.la.psu.edu/ev ent/vp-franklin-hi/ X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html:

During this eve nt, Dr. V.P. Franklin will be presented with our 2020 Outstanding Alumni Award (delayed due to pandemic circumstances), and will deliver our ann ual Celebrate the Humanities lecture, “Reparations, Reparatory Jus tice, and Youth Activism in the Twenty-First Century.” Additionall y, we will celebrate the donation of Dr. Franklin’s papers to the University Libraries at Penn State.

The participation of youth was essential for the success of private and public school desegregation, o rganized boycotts, and marches and protests during the civil rights camp aigns. The children and teenagers came to understand that they would be primary beneficiaries of the breakdown of barriers to educational instit utions, employment opportunities, and economic advancement. They also jo ined the protest because non-participation meant the continuing of the r acial status quo and thus they had much to gain and little to lose. The chant was for “Freedom Now!” In the early twenty-first centu ry, there is a pressing need to repair the damage that racial discrimina tion and exclusion has done to African Americans and other people of col or, creating huge disparities in wealth, income, health conditions, and mortality rates. Reparations demands are being made upon the local, stat e, and federal governments, public and private schools, religious instit utions, and capitalist corporations. And given the damage done to the ai r, land, and water by the fossil fuel and other capitalist industries, r eparatory justice campaigns are needed to prevent more catastrophic clim ate changes and to repair the damage to the physical environment that ha s already been done. Much is owed to the young people and their chant sh ould be “Reparations Now!”

For more details: https://events.la.psu.e du/event/vp-franklin-hi/

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