THE ALT UNIVERSE
Powered by Circle
The A Long Talk ONLINE community is a committed nation of educated, empowered and enduring agents of change. The A Long Talk experience is an activation point for individual and collective activism.
Through our online Circle community platform: The A Long Talk Universe, every participant —who has already gone through our 2-day/2-hours each conversation— is connected to unlimited resources, community events and networking opportunities with other like-minded activists from across the country.
A Long Talk Community members are equipped and encouraged to be Pillars Of Change in their local communities. Through monthly meetups that can be attended virtually, or through access to the recordings, we continuously provide opportunities to educate and organize.
Want to join our online community?
To do so, please first participate in our next monthly community conversation.
Its free!
If you already have participated in one of our monthly community conversations and would like to become a member of our community please contact us: info@alongtalk.com.
If you are interested in more information for your institution or company please contact us: info@alongtalk.com.
Activate your Activism
|
Getting Started
|
Ongoing Projects
|
Activism Resources
|
Deep Dives
|
Discuss-Ask-Share
|
Monthly Meeting Zoom Recordings
|
Activate your Activism | Getting Started | Ongoing Projects | Activism Resources | Deep Dives | Discuss-Ask-Share | Monthly Meeting Zoom Recordings |
A Long Talk Community members are equipped and encouraged to be Pillars Of Change in their local communities.
Through monthly meetups that can be attended virtually, or through access to the recordings, we continuously provide opportunities to educate and organize.
Over 7,000 people have participated in A Long Talk over the last 26 months. Their paths have come to cross here from origins far and wide across the country. They represent a wide variety of backgrounds. College athletes and corporate executives, high school students and elementary school teachers, best selling authors and retired librarians, amateur activists and seasoned abolitions…all of these folks and more are connecting with a collective energy towards a common goal: ERACISM!
PAID COURSES
African American Studies Course: Black Black History Immersion
with A Long Talk’s Expert in Residence, Dr. La TaSha Levy
Looking for more complex framings of race and resistance? This series is for you. Dr. TaSha saves you time and a hundred rabbit holes by identifying engaging material to raise your level of consciousness and build your armor!
What's included?
You get five study sessions for $125. Each study session consists of 6-10 resources, including videos, articles, songs, poetry, and images that explore key ideas that are grounded in African American Studies. You'll have access to material and bonus content for 12 months.
Once you purchase the immersion series you'll gain access to more than three dozen resources, provocative arguments, little-known expressions of resistance, as well as access to community dialogue and engagement.
Dr. La TaSha Levy
Founder, Black Star Rising
Team Member Dr. La TaSha Levy is a Black Studies scholar with more than 20 years of experience teaching Black history and culture to high school and college students.
In 2018, she founded Black Star Rising, a Black history curricula and coaching enterprise that prepares educators, parents, and community members to teach
African American history and culture despite limited opportunities for formal training in Black Studies.
In 2015, Dr. Levy taught one of the first college courses on #BlackLivesMatter and has since expanded resources for educators to understand and teach recent movements in historical context. She is a contributing author of the award-winning text, Understanding and Teaching the Civil Rights Movement, and her chapter, "Black Conservative Dissent," was published in The Black Intellectual Tradition: African American Thought in the Twentieth Century.
Dr. Levy earned a bachelor's degree in African American and African Studies from the University of Virginia, a master's in Africana Studies at Cornell University, and a Ph.D. in African American Studies from Northwestern University. She also has experience working in student affairs, having served as the director of the Luther P. Jackson Black Cultural Center at the University of Virginia.