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March is Racial Capitalism Month
The Harvard Law Review aptly defined racial capitalism as “the process of deriving value from the racial identity of others, harming the individuals affected and society as a whole.” Racial capitalism is not a thing of the past, but a systemic force that continues today. The commodification of racial identity. The overvaluation of whiteness. These are but a few of the many dimensions of racial capitalism that we’ll explore in this series.
Last week we opened voting for our our latest investment opportunity,Jazz Urbane Cafe, a new arts and restaurant venture planned to launch in Fall 2022 in Nubian Square.
The Ujima Fund Management Team is proposing an investment in Jazz Urbane Cafe in the amount of $200,000, over 6 years, with an expected annual return of 13% via pro-rata distribution to equity owners.
This ballot will be open until Friday, April 8, 2022. If you would like to volunteer to Phone Bank for this vote, reach out to us. at comms@ujimaboston.comto get involved.
Time: Wednesday, March 30th, 6PM EST | Location: Zoom Only
6:00PM-7:15PM - #Co-Learn:
This week, we're studying racial capitalism and slave economies in Boston with Kyera Singleton.
Kyera Singleton is the Executive Director of the Royall House and Slave Quarters. She is also a PhD Candidate at the University of Michigan-Ann Arbor in the Department of American Culture. For the 2021-2022 academic year, Kyera Singleton is an American Democracy Fellow, in the Charles Warren Center, at Harvard University. She has held prestigious academic fellowships from the Beinecke Foundation, the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, Emory University’s James Weldon Johnson Institute for the Study of Race and Difference, and the American Association of University Women (AAUW).
From 2018 through 2019, Kyera served as the Humanity in Action Policy Fellow for the ACLU of Georgia. As a policy fellow, she focused on mass incarceration, reproductive justice, and voting rights. She created the ACLU-GA’s first podcast series “Examining Justice” in order to highlight the voices of both community activists and policymakers in the fight for racial, gender, and transformative justice.
As a public history scholar, Kyera recently served as an advisor on the Boston Art Commission’s Recontextualization Subcommittee for the bronze Emancipation Group Statue. She is also a member of the Board of Public Humanities Fellows at Brown University, which brings together a collection of museum leaders from Rhode Island, Massachusetts, and Connecticut.
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