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As a writer/speaker/filmmaker/activist, Molly Secours has been called an
"uncompromising fighter for racial equity and social justice".
Since 1995, Ms. Secours' writings have been published by over 50
mainstream and internet magazines and newspapers. She has appeared on numerous
radio and television talk shows to discuss issues of racism, white privilege and
reparations for slavery.
In 1998 Ms. Secours was invited to serve as an Advisory Board Member at
Fisk University's Race Relations Institute in Nashville, Tennessee. In
2000, she presented an intervention to the United Nations in Santiago, Chile,
proposing that the U.S. "repudiate the official histories and language(s)
that maintain the hegemonic and unearned privileges accorded to those who are
identified as "white". During the Summer of 2001, Secours attended the
United Nations Prep-com in Geneva, Switzerland, and, as a journalist, covered
the World Conference on Racism in Durban, South Africa (August 2001).
During 2000-2001, Ms. Secours wrote a bi-weekly column for the daily
Nashville City Paper until she was informed the paper was "taking a
hard right turn in order to attract financing" and voices of the left were
no longer needed. Since then, Secours has become a contributing writer for
z-net magazine and many other progressive publications and has written
and produced videos for Death Penalty Institute and Free Speech TV.
Secours is a contributing writer in a book published by Harper Collins
(Jan. 2003) titled Should America Pay? Her chapter, entitled
"Riding the Reparations Bandwagon," addresses issues of white privilege
and reparations for the African Slave Trade. She has also co-created a workshop
entitled "Straight Talk About Race-a dialog in black in white"
which she co-facilitates with Dr. Raymond Winbush, the Director of Urban Research
at Morgan State University in Baltimore MD.
In Spring 2001, Secours testified before the Tennessee Judiciary
Committee in support of a reparations study bill. In Fall 2001,
The Scene, Nashville's alternative weekly, identified Secours as one of
"Nashville's most influential public intellectuals". As a strong
presence in the community, Secours has used her skills as a writer and orator to
challenge state and local officials (as well as members of the community) to
carefully consider the state's position on the death penalty and the racial
disparities of the criminal justice system.
In a previous life, Secours worked in theater, film and television and
recently founded a program called Youth Voice Through Video (Y.V.T.V.) wherein
she teaches video-making to juvenile offenders and incarcerated youth in a
Nashville prison. She has written, produced and edited documentary videos
related to social justice issues and is working on several documentary film
projects for her company, One Woman Show Productions.
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