Help Dykee get to LA and Ghana
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Me, My Family and My Community
My name is Dykee Gorrell and I am originally from South Central, Los Angeles. I am a second year student at Hampshire College and I study The Black Radical Tradition in both the African Diaspora and on the African continent. I am a member of Decolonize Media Collective (DMC) as well as Black Lives Matter Springfield.
Being a part of a family that has been directly impacted by homelessness and the Prison Industrial Complex, I have often found solace in family and community. It is because of this reality that I study what I study while aspiring to be a grassroots community organizer and history teacher. It is my goal to teach Black youth about the transnational resilience of Blackness and the importance of community. Like Nikki Giovanni said “Black love is Black wealth.”
California Love
Cali is where it’s at. YAAAASSS! This is exactly why I am going home this summer. Thanks to the phenomenal Patrisse Cullors, one of three cofounders of Black Lives Matter, who offered me an internship opportunity in Los Angeles for the summer of 2015 after speaking to her at an event she was attending at Hampshire College.
Dignity and Power Now is a phenomenal grassroots organization, founded by Patrisse Cullors, whose missions is to fight “for the dignity and power of incarcerated people, their families and communities.” It is truly the perfect internship. Not only is the mission of the organization dear to my heart and extremely personal, but it is an opportunity for me to immerse myself in my community back home in LA in efforts to continue the community organizing work that I have started at Hampshire College with DMC.
But in order to go home there are lots of things that need to happen. I need to pay for plain tickets, transportation, housing, food etc. This is why I ask for 3,000 dollars so that I am able to pay for my stay in LA.
Trip to Africa
During the summer of 2015 I am not only planning on being in LA but I also plan on spending 3 weeks in Accra, Ghana to conduct research at the W.E.B. Du Bois Memorial Center for Pan African Culture. My research project consists of exploring transnational political identities as it relates to African and African Diasporic peoples. I will be looking at the Black Radical tradition and the ways in which Ghana’s Independents Movement utilized Pan-African and Black Nationalist politics, which are apart of a black radical tradition, to sever its colonial ties with England.
The opportunity to do research at the W.E.B. Du Bois Memorial Center for Pan African Culture in Accra, Ghana as well as connecting with BLM chapter in Accra, will bring me one step closer to my dreams of being a history teacher. To teach my future students about the importance of black history is one of my dreams because so often Black students rarely see themselves in history. So, I aspire to be the bridge between my future students and freedom.
In order for this to happen I need to fund raise 5000 dollars to pay for housing, food, International travel, domestic travel, accommodations, travel insurance, visas, passports etc.
How can you support!?
In short, I need financial help. I have exhausted all of my resources here at Hampshire as well as with Non-profits. So, I turn to you. Whatever you can contribute would be great. Whether that be airfare points to sharing this link with your networks/connections.
Thank you so much and PLEASE SHARE THIS LINK
<3 :)
My name is Dykee Gorrell and I am originally from South Central, Los Angeles. I am a second year student at Hampshire College and I study The Black Radical Tradition in both the African Diaspora and on the African continent. I am a member of Decolonize Media Collective (DMC) as well as Black Lives Matter Springfield.
Being a part of a family that has been directly impacted by homelessness and the Prison Industrial Complex, I have often found solace in family and community. It is because of this reality that I study what I study while aspiring to be a grassroots community organizer and history teacher. It is my goal to teach Black youth about the transnational resilience of Blackness and the importance of community. Like Nikki Giovanni said “Black love is Black wealth.”
California Love
Cali is where it’s at. YAAAASSS! This is exactly why I am going home this summer. Thanks to the phenomenal Patrisse Cullors, one of three cofounders of Black Lives Matter, who offered me an internship opportunity in Los Angeles for the summer of 2015 after speaking to her at an event she was attending at Hampshire College.
Dignity and Power Now is a phenomenal grassroots organization, founded by Patrisse Cullors, whose missions is to fight “for the dignity and power of incarcerated people, their families and communities.” It is truly the perfect internship. Not only is the mission of the organization dear to my heart and extremely personal, but it is an opportunity for me to immerse myself in my community back home in LA in efforts to continue the community organizing work that I have started at Hampshire College with DMC.
But in order to go home there are lots of things that need to happen. I need to pay for plain tickets, transportation, housing, food etc. This is why I ask for 3,000 dollars so that I am able to pay for my stay in LA.
Trip to Africa
During the summer of 2015 I am not only planning on being in LA but I also plan on spending 3 weeks in Accra, Ghana to conduct research at the W.E.B. Du Bois Memorial Center for Pan African Culture. My research project consists of exploring transnational political identities as it relates to African and African Diasporic peoples. I will be looking at the Black Radical tradition and the ways in which Ghana’s Independents Movement utilized Pan-African and Black Nationalist politics, which are apart of a black radical tradition, to sever its colonial ties with England.
The opportunity to do research at the W.E.B. Du Bois Memorial Center for Pan African Culture in Accra, Ghana as well as connecting with BLM chapter in Accra, will bring me one step closer to my dreams of being a history teacher. To teach my future students about the importance of black history is one of my dreams because so often Black students rarely see themselves in history. So, I aspire to be the bridge between my future students and freedom.
In order for this to happen I need to fund raise 5000 dollars to pay for housing, food, International travel, domestic travel, accommodations, travel insurance, visas, passports etc.
How can you support!?
In short, I need financial help. I have exhausted all of my resources here at Hampshire as well as with Non-profits. So, I turn to you. Whatever you can contribute would be great. Whether that be airfare points to sharing this link with your networks/connections.
Thank you so much and PLEASE SHARE THIS LINK
<3 :)
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Dykee Gorrell
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