Welcome to The UPlift with Tzedek!

The UPLift is a monthly 30-minute radio show dedicated to holding space for "Real Talk" in seeking "Real Change." The program leverages Tzedek’s values-based, collective liberation perspective to frame local community conversations in working to expand Tzedek’s reach, increase community awareness, and improve community engagement across our focal areas of Racial Justice, LGBTQ Justice, and Dismantling Antisemitism.

Episode 1: Program Launch

This Week, we're diving into the question, "Why should POC care about dismantling antisemitism?" Carolina Jews for Justice Executive Director Abby Lublin and local author, advocate, and Golden Moon Circles consultant Ray Hemachandra are both at the table. Hang on tight because this conversation goes deep - fast!

Episode 2: Why Should POC Care About Dismantling Antisemitism?

This month, we get REAL in exploring the incredible power of community-based, BIPOC-led doulas and how they're changing the game for birthing families. The numbers don't lie. The truth is that Black birthers have a 53% higher risk of dying in the hospital during childbirth - no matter their bank account size, insurance status, or any other social determinant of health. So what gives? As LaVie Montgomery of Sistas Caring 4 Sistas (SC4S) shared, "It all comes down to race."

Episode 3: Birthing Justice - Healthy Black Moms, Healthy Black Futures

For Tzedek, the Brilliance Awards are one way to UPLift the UPLifters! Tzedek Brilliance Awards honor Asheville leaders who have engaged in impactful, intersectional efforts to further racial justice and LGBTQ equality or to combat antisemitism. Our past Brilliance Award winners, Marta Ligia Alcalá and Philip Cooper, join in to speak truth and share experience. We're talking wealth generation and exploring how grantmaking to individuals serves Tzedek's mission to redistribute wealth in Asheville.

Episode 4: Breaking the Cycle - It's Not Rocket Science; It's Rockefeller

It's Pride month and we're discussing LGBTQ+ inclusion/exclusion in the South with Reverend Tami Forte Logan of Faith 4 Justice Asheville - Provoking Justice and Torre Garrison of the Reparations Stakeholder Authority of Asheville. Listen in as Rev. Tami and Torre speak truth and share experience. This conversation is worth checking out, no doubt!

Episode 5: Pride & Prejudice - Faith, Love & LGBTQ Inclusion in the South

The Tzedek Social Justice Fund is a social justice philanthropy fund that 
redistributes money, resources, and power to support systems change and community healing in Asheville, North Carolina. Through adaptive, trust-based philanthropy, we resist oppressive systems and work to transform our collective home into a place where everyone flourishes. We fund mission-aligned work centering LGBTQ Justice, Racial Justice, and/or Dismantling Antisemitism; this means we give money to organizations and individuals invested in creating a more fair, equitable, and flourishing society.

We dream of a thriving Asheville where everyone's needs are abundantly met - where everyone is safe, respected, and celebrated. We believe that a community rooted in joy and love is possible - that is, if we can connect and build our shared vision on the value that liberation is for all.

Sound good to you!? 

Welcome to The UPlift - Real Talk for Real Change! We're here to build authentic community relationships and help fuel social transformation in Asheville, NC, believing collective liberation is not only possible but probable as we share, listen, and learn together. 

Let's be real. Let's go deep. Let's get liberated.

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