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Historic Clayborn Temple going live with ‘Thrive’

Historic Clayborn Temple – as a way to cultivate sustainable, thriving Black communities – is hosting Thrive, a live virtual event, on April 5.

The aim is to increase awareness of restorative economics, contributing to the establishment of cooperatives and other restorative economic models in the heart of Memphis.

Attendees, who can register for free, will learn best practices from food, housing and multi-stakeholder co-ops. Organizers also pitch access to other restorative economic models that allow community members to own the benefits of their contributions.” 

“Black people have always been used for their labor with little benefit to themselves or their communities. This has meant less economic stability and less economic power for the city’s majority population,” said Executive Director Anasa Troutman.

“Thrive will provide these Memphians with the knowledge and resources to create resilient, sustainable communities.”

The event will include presentations from restorative economics and cooperatives experts and practitioners, including Nwamaka Agbo, Erin Dale Byrd, Roneice Gilkey, Kayon Montaque, Troutman and Ed Whitfield, along with breakout conversations and a question and answer session.

“Our guest speakers have a deep passion for this work and a profound understanding of what we’re hoping to accomplish here in Memphis,” said Troutman.

Home of the 1968 Sanitation Workers’ Strike and the campaign’s iconic “I AM A MAN” signs, Historic Clayborn Temple has become a universal symbol for human rights, human dignity and work for economic justice at the intersection of race and class.

Now being restored and reborn as a state of the art cultural center, Historic Clayborn Temple is envisioned as “a premier gathering space on the border of Downtown and South Memphis for transformative storytelling, civil rights tourism and venue and meeting space.”

The virtual event will include a focus on the emerging In This Place Community Council. Organizers describe the In This Place initiative as rooted in Historic Clayborn Temple’s history as “a place for labor organizing and the commitment to human dignity and economic equity for African American communities.”

The In This Place goal is to “empower Memphians to work in unity to restore our people and places, thus producing lives abundant with health, wealth, safety, joy and self-determination.”

The Council is to serve as the governing body for Clayborn Temple’s restorative economics work.

Thrive is set for 4:30 p.m. on April 5. 

Guests can register at https://bit.ly/39c9uCN

 

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