Tea Talks

Sunday, March 8, 2020, 2pm New Voices: Our Beliefs, Our Reality Presenters: Funmi Oyekunle, Carlos Cardona, Courtney Dalbec, Jordan Thompson Location: Temple Israel, 200 State St., Portsmouth The implicit associations and beliefs we harbor in our subconscious cause us to have feelings and attitudes about other people based on characteristics such as race, ethnicity, age, and appearance. With a lens on educational institutions, politics and the law, this closing discussion will feature a group of emerging New Hampshire voices that…

Sunday, March 1, 2020, 2pm Racism without Racists: Educating Generations Past & Future Presenters: Kabria Baumgartner, Mabelle Barnette, Liz Canada, Elizabeth Dubrulle Location: Portsmouth Public Library, Levenson Room From the moment a child is born, his or her education begins. As the child grows beliefs, cultural expectations and norms are reinforced by teachers, textbooks, and classmates. For students outside the dominant culture, this aspect of the educational system can pose significant challenges for once the brain has constructed a belief,…

Sunday, February 23, 2020, 2pm Culture and Race in the Public Sphere Presenters: Anthony Poore, Nathaniel Sheidley, Dennis Britton, J. Dennis Robinson Location: Portsmouth Public Library, Levenson Room Many of our beliefs are passed along to us from our families and communities, who transmit the foundational ideas that shape how we see the world. How the arts and humanities shape their contents also have a powerful influence on how we form particular beliefs. This panel will discuss the historical role…

Sunday, February 16, 2020, 2pm Medicine, Health, and Race Presenters: Shari Robinson, Daphne Robert, Kerri Osborne Location: Portsmouth Public Library, Levenson Room Racism in medicine, a problem with roots over 2,500 years old, is a historical continuum that continuously affects the health of African Americans and the way they receive healthcare. Racism is, at least in part, responsible for the fact that Blacks and People of Color, since enslavement, have had inadequate health care, poor health status, and poorer health…

Sunday, February 9, 2020, 2pm No Neutral Ground: Media and Belief Formulation Presenters: Shelley Walcott, Eric Ratinoff, Howard Altschiller Location: Portsmouth Public Library, Levenson Room The media – television, the press, radio and the internet – plays an important role in shaping public opinion and reinforcing a society’s beliefs. In informing the public about what happens in the world, the media can shape public debate and focus public interest on particular agendas and thus can influence individual actions and implicit…

Sunday, February 2, 2020, 2pm We Are Our Beliefs — Or Are We? Presenters: Chris Matthews, Jeannine Jacques, Eric Schildge Location: Temple Israel, 200 State St., Portsmouth NH Beliefs are powerful structures within the human mind that help us navigate our social and personal environments. These beliefs do not need to make sense to be deeply held. Our thoughts and feelings, our actions and reactions, respond not to the world as it is but to the world as we believe…