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Description: In this virtual workshop, we’ll develop a vision of how we can best learn from the lives and lessons of some of the greatest White antiracists in U.S. history. Using Anne Braden’s life as a foundation for reflection, before the workshop we’ll use readings accompanied by guiding questions to journal about what we can learn from her. This will include reflecting on Braden’s growth process to better understand our own, and examining her strategizing to reflect on lessons we could adapt to our current organizing. We’ll then discuss our key takeaways and big questions when we come together. The evening will be facilitated by educator and author Lynn Burnett, who is building a project to write about White antiracist history and to get the lessons from that history into White antiracist spaces.

Pre-reading assignment: We’ll begin by discussing the short piece White Antiracists Have Ancestors (https://burnett-lynn.medium.com/white-antiracists-have-ancestors-52a8a0452442), as a way to develop our own visions of how we can best learn from this history. Then we’ll take a deeper dive by discussing this chapter-length article about Anne Braden (https://crossculturalsolidarity.com/the-life-of-anne-braden-part-one-finding-her-way-to-the-movement/). For those unable to do the readings, no worries! This workshop is structured to ensure that all can participate fully.

About Lynn: Lynn Burnett is a former high school history teacher and longtime racial justice activist. In 2015, he founded CrossCulturalSolidarity.com in an effort to lift up racial justice history, both through his own writing and through the development of deep-dive resource pages. His recent White Antiracist Ancestry Project aims to provide White people trying to show up for racial justice today with sources of guidance, inspiration and self-reflection by telling the stories of the greatest White antiracists in U.S. history.