Middle-on-the-Road is a new program initiative to spread the Revolutionary Love Conference messages in communities around the United States. We partner with other organizations such as Vote for Common Good and Project Hospitality. We aim to facilitate broader outreach, engagement and organizing to recruit and mobilize new voters based on ethical values and citizen leadership.
Previous Events
Financial Empowerment Workshops
October 2021
The Middle Project was proud to co-sponsor this Food & Finances workshop series. Project Hospitality partnered with Food Bank NYC to offer six, free virtual financial empowerment workshops. Over October 2022, a Certified Financial Counselor hosted a series of free workshops on various topics regarding financial health. All classes were free and open to the public.
Reimagining the Justice System Panel
March 24, 2021
This much needed discussion surrounding prison reform and our broken justice system was held online on March 24, 2021. The speakers included four our Nation's leading thought leaders, founders and activists that are tackling issues surrounding the prison industrial complex. Art activist Genesis Be moderated this conversation around rebuilding a system based on rehabilitation, community healing and human dignity. We'll analyze historic systems of oppression, how we got to this point and how we can end the Profit over People mentality and practices that are destroying families. Participants walked away inspired and with a CLEAR call to action of how to personally fight against this egregious attack on human rights and basic liberties. The event is free and was co-sponsored with Focus for Health. Watch the recording here.
Speakers:
Soffiyah Elijah (Alliance of Families for Justice)
Corey Greene (H.O.L.L.A.)
Nicole Hanson-Mundell (Out for Justice)
Sydney McKinney, Ph.D, MPH, MA (National Black Women’s Justice Institute)
Moderator:
Genesis Be
Caste: A Conversation
January 17, 2021
This antiracism teach-in was held on January 17, 2021. Rev. Jacqui Lewis, Ph.D. and Anu Gupta lead a conversation about Isabel Wilkerson’s award-winning book Caste: The Origin of Our Discontents. In the book, Wilkerson connects America’s own caste system to racial hierarchies in India and Nazi Germany, and how its evil continues to corrupt our national life. Together, Jacqui and Anu talk about how the book helps us better understand this political moment, and how we can begin to heal. Rev. Jacqui Lewis is Senior Minister at Middle Collegiate Church and is a renowed expert on racial justice education. Anu Gupta is founder of BE MORE and a sought-after mindfulness and unconscious bias expert and educator.
f you missed this event, you can learn more about breaking racial bias at: https://bemorewithanu.com/.