Even though most people will have more than one job, we are somehow sold the dream of a linear career progression--finish school, get a job and then retire. Though this has not been the case for many over the last three generations, it is still the picture we have in our minds. Further, events beyond our control might necessitate changing course and pivoting into another career path. It can be done, though! This session will cover often overlooked valuable resources that can be used for job transition and improving your current professional status. Regardless of your current career status, or your level of educational achievement, there's bound to be some bit of information shared that will you help you navigate the professional world. So join us! Let’s rewrite the rules of career success—together.

HGS Executive Director Jerald Crook wraps up the Love Out Loud Chat for Change series with poet Ashley M. Jones, hip hop artist G.I. Magus, mental health professional Jerusalem Brown, and Alabama Contemporary Arts Center executive director elizabet ellliot, in conversation about how love can manifest in our communities.

Viewers are encouraged to participate in the conversation. Those who chat back with the panel will be entered to win a giveaway prize announced at the end of the event. This is definitely an event you don't want to miss! See you there!

The Chat for Change: Love Out Loud discussion series continues as HGS Executive Director Jerald Crook brings back poet Ashley M. Jones, hip hop artist G.I. Magus, and mental health professional Jerusalem Brown to discuss what love looks like in our friendships, our families, and romantic relationships.

Viewers are encouraged to participate in the conversation. Those who chat back with the panel will be entered to win a giveaway prize announced at the end of the event. This is definitely an event you don't want to miss! See you there!

Join us again as we, in an effort to better understand each other and the world in which we cohabitate, gather to screen and discuss the Academy Award-nominated documentary "I Am Not Your Negro." This free event seeks to enlighten and empower us as a community to face current racial/social injustices, seen and unseen. Bring a curious mind and an open heart. We're all here to grow together.

Film Synopsis: 
In 1979, James Baldwin wrote a letter to his literary agent describing his next project, Remember This House. The book was to be a revolutionary, personal account of the lives and successive assassinations of three of his close friends—Medgar Evers, Malcolm X and Martin Luther King, Jr. 

At the time of Baldwin’s death in 1987, he left behind only thirty completed pages of his manuscript.

Now, in his incendiary new documentary, master filmmaker Raoul Peck envisions the book James Baldwin never finished. The result is a radical, up-to-the-minute examination of race in America, using Baldwin’s original words and flood of rich archival material. I Am Not Your Negro is a journey into black history that connects the past of the Civil Rights movement to the present of #BlackLivesMatter. It is a film that questions black representation in Hollywood and beyond. And, ultimately, by confronting the deeper connections between the lives and assassination of these three leaders, Baldwin and Peck have produced a work that challenges the very definition of what America stands for.

See the trailer: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rNUYdgIyaPM