Oct. 10, 2022

On I'm Tired of Racism and Clarissa Uprooted Featuring Sharon Hurley Hall, Shanterra Randle-Mitchum, George Fontenette and Jaylen Wims

On I'm Tired of Racism and Clarissa Uprooted Featuring Sharon Hurley Hall, Shanterra Randle-Mitchum, George Fontenette and Jaylen Wims
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On I'm Tired of Racism and Clarissa Uprooted Featuring Sharon Hurley Hall, Shanterra Randle-Mitchum, George Fontenette and Jaylen Wims

In this episode, Sharon Hurley Hall, co-host of the Introverted Sisters podcast, discusses her new book, I'm Tired of Racism, and the team from the Clarissa Uprooted project talks about the origins of the project and the value it serves in preserving the history of the Black community in Rochester, NY. In closing, I explain why I can't vote for Barabbus this election cycle.

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Clarissa Uprooted Profile Photo

Clarissa Uprooted

The Clarissa Uprooted movement is a collaboration between the Center for Teen Empowerment and the Clarissa Street Reunion Committee. We have collaborated with several other local organizations, such as the Rochester Community Television (RCTV)’s Youth Media Team to produce our documentary, and several RIT and University of Rochester faculty to execute our exhibit.

Sharon Hurley Hall Profile Photo

Sharon Hurley Hall

Sharon Hurley Hall is an anti-racism activist, writer, and educator. Firmly committed to doing her part to eliminate racism, she is the Founder and Curator-in-Chief of Sharon’s Anti-Racism Newsletter. In this twice-weekly online publication, Sharon writes about existing while Black in majority-white spaces, and amplifies the voices of other anti-racism activists and Black founders.

Sharon is also the author of I’m Tired of Racism, and an in-demand speaker about equality, anti-racism, and diversity, equity, inclusion and belonging. Sharon was previously the Diversity Team Lead and Anti-Racism Educator at a disruptive Ed Tech startup, where she developed and led anti-racism courses, diversity education curricula, and workshops for children and adults.

An experienced writer, Sharon is the author of Exploring Shadeism, an analysis of colorism in Barbados and the wider Caribbean. A self-confessed word nerd and polymath, Sharon has also worked as a journalist, an editor, and a senior journalism professor at Coventry University in the U.K. A speaker and podcaster, Sharon is the co-host of The Introvert Sisters podcast, and has been a featured presenter at events by The National Collaboration for Youth Mental Health, SIETAR DC, The Equality Practice, and Jim-Ree Museum Inc.

Sharon holds MA degrees in Media and Cultural Studies, and in Teaching and Learning in Higher Education. She helped develop and teach the MA Journalism programme at Coventry University in the UK.