Solidarity Hour... The One with Brian Levy

You’ll hear and learn the most amazing stories from Brian Levy:

• A story of adventure as Brian’s ancestors take on a Jewish name, before being adopted by the Cherokee 

• Adventures in New Zealand, playing rugby at one in the morning with one of the All Blacks… to prove whether American Football or Rugby is a tougher sport

• 3 things that we need to hear even if it makes us uncomfortable

Brian's number one take away is to challenge bad assumptions! Instead think through logically whether your assumption makes sense or is even real. If you don’t know it for a fact, it probably isn’t. Rather than police looking at him as a 200 pound Black guy, when they see him with his 9 year old daughter, they realize “He's a dad too!”

Juneteenth is the oldest nationally celebrated commemoration of the ending of slavery in the United States. Although slavery was effectively ended with President Lincoln’s Emancipation Proclamation issued on January 1st, 1863, it was not until two and a half years later that Union soldiers arrived in Galveston, Texas on June 19th, 1865 with the news that the Civil War had ended and that the enslaved were now free.

Now more than ever, Juneteenth is an important day to commemorate. Juneteenth serves as a celebration of freedom and achievement within the Black community, but it also serves as a sobering reminder that freedom and justice in the United States have always been delayed for Black people.