Remnants of Hope champions personal and collective liberation within our community!
Our mission extends beyond making a significant impact; it is about encouraging and empowering individuals and organizations within the community toward personal and collective liberation!
Featuring Remnants of Hope:
Community Events, Podcasts & Publications
Nu Skool of Afrikan American Thought-Untold Stories
Teaching the community about the untold stories of the Civil Rights Movement after a sponsored trip to commemorate the 60th anniversary of the 16th Street Baptist Church Bombing.
Black Leadership Redefined
Statistics show Black women and their babies have worse health outcomes than their white peers. In this episode, Dr. Sylvia Bartley welcomes Dr. Kristin Oates, OBGYN at Atlanta Gynecology and Obstetrics, Terra Cole Brown, Executive Director at Oakland Parks and Recreation Foundation, and Shakita Thomas Kpetay from Remnants of Hope Coaching and Consulting for an informative discussion on the heightened risks faced by women of color and how to manage them.
Managing Reproductive Health for Black Women
Writing Challenge
Writing challenge in collaboration with Aya Media and Publishing.
Fashion Show Fundraiser
Collaboration with the Model Boutique and Company Modeling School & Management to raise awareness and money for Black women living with Endometriosis.
MSR Forefront: Raising Black Scholars forum
Mainstream education is centered in Whiteness and is taught by predominantly White educators. In an effort to resolve this, Minnesota Humanities Center (MHC) in partnership with the African American Leadership Forum (AALF) will host a virtual cultural education forum, “Realizing Wakanda: Educating and Nurturing the Brilliance of our Black Scholars (Students).”
Drawing from the histories of nonformal Black education, (Pp)an-Africanist scholarship, and critical qualitative research, this participatory ethnographic study documents an organic conception of public space where Black people, many of whom have been disaffected by traditional public schools, come to teach and learn with each other.
‘To Their Benefit’ - Tracing (Pp)an-Africanism through nonformal black educational space” Educational Studies
“We (Re)member” - Progressive Neoliberalism in Education
This volume makes the novel contributions of applying Nancy Fraser’s concept of progressive neoliberalism to education in order in order to illustrate how social justice efforts have been co-opted by neoliberal forces.
Remnants of Hope (Re) Member, (Re) Claim, (Re) New
A Dissertation Submitted to the faculty of the University of Minnesota by Shakita Thomas Kpetay in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy.
The Global Impact Exchange
The Global Impact Exchange quarterly publication serves to advance domestic and international conversations around diversity, inclusion, and equity in global education with respect to the thematic focus identified each quarter.