And that’s a wrap folks! We have officially found and spoken with 3 Black heroes from Oakland, San Francisco, and New York City.
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Our tea tasting fundraiser took place on 5/28 at the Chinatown Branch, Chicago Public Library. Students, artists, and community members had an amazing conversation not only about how Chinese culture has shown up in their lives, but we also spoke about the need to decolonize tea, drawing on the events of the Opium War and community building.
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On 5/28, we hosted our monthly Housing Insecure Meal Program where we have now assembled 1,000 meal bags! Every month we get together and make meal bags for housing insecure folks to further our mission of providing basic necessities to community members.
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This art installation fundraiser will be held at Ping Tom Park and the art piece tells the story of a Chinese American family and their relationship with food.
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This event will be held at the Chinatown Library and we’ll be tasting 3-4 teas, accompanied by a variety of tea snacks.
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This school council meeting will take place at Haines Elementary School and will speak about Chicago Public Schools and their proposed budget cut to Haines School for almost $450,000! Come and join us in voicing your concerns to influence CPS's decision.
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Come learn the history and culture behind Chinese teas and taste different teas the gongfucha way!
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Are you a concerned community member? Do you care about education? Come join us for People Matter’s Education meeting! It will take place on Wednesday, May 11th at 5pm in the Chinatown Branch, Chicago Public Library.
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The current persecution of Will Smith is a perfect example of Anti-Blackness and the excessive punishment of Black people.
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The first meeting with our lovely high school Garden Fellows was earlier this month where we all got to know one another and complete activities around gardening basics.
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Thanks to our staff and volunteers, we have officially begun working to create a paper mache sculpture for Ping Tom Park.
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Our campaign Believe Survivors of Racism has launched! This campaign will use educational Instagram posts and articles, discussions, and potential policy changes to make people take racism seriously.
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We have now selected about 30 young people into our Youth Led Community Garden Program. Students come from over 8 middle and high schools across the South Side of Chicago.
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As you may know, many POC communities suffer in silence in food deserts, and many POC kids are not taught what healthy eating looks like.
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Yay! The Spring session of our Unlearning Anti-blackness Classes has begun. All our students are having such a good time. We have about 25 students – double the number
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2021 was a great year for us at People Matter. Read below to learn more about the accomplishments we were able to achieve throughout the year.
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If you are interested and committed to tackling your internalized anti-black racism, and finding a community to support you in that work, this class is for you. This is a 8 week program during February 14th - April 8th, 2022 and will be online on Zoom.
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For the remainder of the 2021 Holidays, we wanted to highlight some local, Black-owned businesses who are also giving back to their communities. Consider shopping with them this holiday season!
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This week was the final week for our anti-blackness classes and we asked our students to create a final project to showcased what they learned. Our students made amazing final projects to reflect on what we learned these past eight weeks and how to tackle their own antiblackness.
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