Month: August 2019
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Moral Progress: Challenges and Opportunities
Read More: Moral Progress: Challenges and OpportunitiesJoin Leader Bart Worden at 10:30 a.m. Sunday, September 8, for Moral Progress: Challenges and Opportunities. The Ethical Culture Movement was founded on the idea that moral progress, while not inevitable, is possible through the concerted and sustained efforts of people who strive to bring ethics to life. By working together to promote caring and…
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First Friday Films presents: “American Factory”
Read More: First Friday Films presents: “American Factory”First Friday Films presents: “American Factory” by Directors: Steven Bognar and Julia Reichert at 7:30 p.m. Friday, September 6. In 2016, Fuyao, a Chinese auto-glass manufacturing company, took over a shuttered General Motors factory near Dayton, Ohio, investing millions and hiring hundreds of local workers. With detail and sweep, interviews and you-are-there visuals, the filmmakers…
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September HUMANITAS Meeting
Read More: September HUMANITAS MeetingHUMANITAS: the Africana Ethical Society Meeting will be held on Saturday, September 14 at 3 p.m. at the Ethical Culture Society of Westchester. At this meeting, Mrs. Millicent Emmitt will lead Part II of the discussion on “Feminist Theorizing and Activism” based on the work of Tressie McMillan Cottom, Thick and other Essays. HUMANITAS: The Africana Ethical…
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400 Years of African-American Music in America
Read More: 400 Years of African-American Music in AmericaThe Ethical Cafe will present 400 Years of African-American Music in America at 7:30 p.m. September 20. Featured Music: ★ 1619 to 1719 (Slave Period) Plantation Folk Music/Urban Folk★ 1719 to 1819 (Slave) Emergence of Sacred and “Code Music”★ 1819 to 1919 (Roots of Blues, Jazz and Spirituals)★ 1919 to 2019 (Evolution of Jazz, Rhythm…
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Ethical Culture Society of Essex County Statement on Immigration
Read More: Ethical Culture Society of Essex County Statement on ImmigrationStatement prepared by the Ethical Culture Society of Essex County Social Action Committee, 516 Prospect Street, Maplewood, New Jersey 07040www.EssexEthical.org, ecsec.nj@gmail.com, 973-763-1905Zia Durrani, Society President, and Meredith Sue Willis, Social Action Committee Chair We are increasingly appalled by our nation’s immigration policies that demonize and criminalize people looking for asylum, for a refuge from oppression,…
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Stories of Slavery in Colonial North: People Not Property
Read More: Stories of Slavery in Colonial North: People Not PropertyPlease join us for this interactive documentary in a celebration and commemoration of the early African presence in Westchester County. Space is limited. Please RSVP jbeville@greenburghny.com or 914-434-6848 or 914-885-4918. Presented by: The 400 Years Project of the Greenburgh African American Historical Alliance and Historic Hudson Valley.
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The Humanist case for abolishing the death penalty
Read More: The Humanist case for abolishing the death penaltyBy Bart Worden, Leader of the Ethical Culture Society of Westchester and Executive Director of the American Ethical Union, a national organization devoted to ethics and social justice. An actor friend of mine was distressed when she noticed a saying on a plaque on our living room wall. It read, “What one does, one becomes.”…