At the Greenspon Center we are listening, learning, and offering avenues for creating change everywhere – in Grier Heights, in Charlotte, and online. Greenspon Center advocates supported a July 24th …
#How2FaceHate – Our New Initiative
The Stan Greenspon Center for Peace and Social Justice is excited to announce our newest project, #How2FaceHate (#H2FH). On the website www.how2facehate.org, young people who have experienced acts of hate …
Time to Break the Silence by: Frances Hamilton
It has been totally disregarded, or begrudgingly noted with the least amount of recognition, for too long. It’s been threatened, degraded, forced out, pushed aside, silenced, unappreciated, criticized, downplayed or …
Queens Alum join together to create Belk Chapel Jewish-Muslim Interfaith Initiative
By Mohammed Jibriel (Class of 2019), former president of Queens’ Muslim Student Association (Salam), and Noah Goldman (Class of 2019), former president of Queens’ Jewish Student Association (Hillel). “So great …
Local Schools Confront Bias and Prejudice
The beginning of the 2020-2021 school year looked different. Many teachers prepared, often for the first time, to teach remotely. Others planned ways to keep students safe as they returned …
Virtual Teaching is Hard: Virtual PD Isn’t!
One thing has become painfully clear during the past few months: virtual teaching is hard! Sure, there are surprising blessings and benefits along the way, but overall this work is …
Black and Brown and White: Now What?
During the past few months the topics of racial inequity and injustice have been front and center in our country in ways not seen since the Civil Rights Movement. Black …
Holocaust Education and Dismantling Racism
Antisemitism, in all its ugly forms reaching back thousands of years, is a vicious form of racism that began as anti-Judaism. It evolved throughout time from discrimination based solely on …
Greenspon Center programming during the stay-at-home order
Greenspon Center programming during the stay-at-home order All programs listed were offered virtually Holocaust & Human Rights Education Yom Hashoah presentations for Providence Day School Donna Tarney created a …
A Memory Resurfaces: A Survivor Reflects by Marianne Lieberman
The following reflection comes from Marianne Lieberman, one of our local Holocaust Survivors. Marianne wrote this piece as a response to the feelings of isolation and tension that were re-awakened …