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For our Vote, Show us your Wright Membership
Candidates for elected office ask voters to trust them with the future of their community. But how committed are they to that community if they cannot even become a member of its local museum? Membership is more than writing a check it is a visible statement that a candidate values civic education, respects the community’s…
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The Process of Being Woke
“Woke” did not begin as an insult or a punchline. Rooted in African-American vernacular of the early twentieth century, it emerged as shorthand for a simple idea: staying alert to the social and political conditions harming Black communities, and to the need for solutions. It named something specific awareness of structural inequality, discrimination, and mistreatment…