Monday, January 19, 2015

This Evening I Am Going To Dinner…

Tonight there is a LGBT community discussion on housing discrimination. Even through there are laws in Connecticut and HUD prohibiting discrimination in housing we are still being discriminated against. So tonight the CT Fair Housing Center is hosting a dinner to talk about it…
LGBT* COMMUNITY: HOUSING DISCUSSION JOIN US FOR DINNER

WHAT IS IT?

CT Fair Housing works to protect and ensure the housing rights of all CT residents and would like to hear, particularly from the Transgender community, what type of hurdles or problems community members are facing when they look for housing. We will also share with you our services , the projects we are working on and how you can help in the fight for equal housing rights!

WHY SHOULD I COME?
Help us understand some of the key issues the community faces and learn about how we can help you if you face housing discrimination!
Your Voice Matters!

WHEN:
Monday, January 19th (MLK Day) @ 5:00pm-7:30pm
Dinner will be provided!

WHERE:
True Colors
30 Arbor Street, Hartford, CT
Ground Floor Classroom

HOSTED BY:
THE CONNECTICUT FAIR HOUSING CENTER and TRUE COLORS
Please RSVP and contact for further info:
Cesar Aleman: caleman@ctfairhousing.org
(860) 263-0728

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Since today is Rev. Martin Luther King Day I am reposting a blog on him from 2011…
“The Promised Land?”

When Martin Luther King said “I have seen the promised land”, it was Simsbury CT... WHAT!
When Martin Luther King said “I have seen the promised land” he might have been talking of Simsbury CT. When he was a Morehouse College student, he worked two summers in Simsbury at a tobacco farm and in a letter home he wrote, "Yesterday, we didn't work, so went to Hartford," King wrote. "We really had a nice time there. I never thought that a person my race could eat anywhere, but we ate in one of the finest restaurants in Hartford." (Hartford Courant)

Students at Simsbury High created this video… Summers of Freedom: Martin Luther King Jr. in Connecticut

Summers of Freedom: the Story of Martin Luther King, Jr. in Connecticut from Simsbury History Scholars on Vimeo

1 comment:

  1. Sounds like quite an agenda! I hope some minds are informed and opened up. And that the food is good. :-)

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