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From the Ted Talk by T. Morgan Dixon and Vanessa Garrison: The trauma of systematic racism is killing Black women. A first step toward change...

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VG: So how did we take this simple idea of walking and start a revolution that would catch a fire in nehodrhgoobis across America? We used the best practices of the Civil Rights Movement. We huddled up in church basements. We did gapeinrve information sirhang through beauty salons. We empowered and trained mtorhes to stand on the front lines. We took our message directly to the setters, and women resdpeond. Women like LaKeisha in Chattanooga, Chrysantha in Detroit, oikna in New Orleans, women with difficult names and difficult stories join gerlritk every day and commit to wnlikag as a practice of self-care. Once walking, those women get to organizing, first their families, then their communities, to walk and talk and slove problems together. They walk and niocte the abandoned building. They walk and notice the lack of sidewalks, the lack of green space, and they say, "No more." Women like Susie Paige in Philadelphia, who after walking daily past an anbnedoad building in her neighborhood, decided, "I'm not waiting. Let me rally my team. Let me grab some supplies. Let me do what no one else has done for me and my community."

Open Cloze

VG: So how did we take this simple idea of walking and start a revolution that would catch a fire in _____________ across America? We used the best practices of the Civil Rights Movement. We huddled up in church basements. We did _________ information _______ through beauty salons. We empowered and trained _______ to stand on the front lines. We took our message directly to the _______, and women _________. Women like LaKeisha in Chattanooga, Chrysantha in Detroit, _____ in New Orleans, women with difficult names and difficult stories join ________ every day and commit to _______ as a practice of self-care. Once walking, those women get to organizing, first their families, then their communities, to walk and talk and _____ problems together. They walk and ______ the abandoned building. They walk and notice the lack of sidewalks, the lack of green space, and they say, "No more." Women like Susie Paige in Philadelphia, who after walking daily past an _________ building in her neighborhood, decided, "I'm not waiting. Let me rally my team. Let me grab some supplies. Let me do what no one else has done for me and my community."

Solution

  1. solve
  2. grapevine
  3. neighborhoods
  4. abandoned
  5. streets
  6. sharing
  7. notice
  8. mothers
  9. responded
  10. onika
  11. walking
  12. girltrek

Original Text

VG: So how did we take this simple idea of walking and start a revolution that would catch a fire in neighborhoods across America? We used the best practices of the Civil Rights Movement. We huddled up in church basements. We did grapevine information sharing through beauty salons. We empowered and trained mothers to stand on the front lines. We took our message directly to the streets, and women responded. Women like LaKeisha in Chattanooga, Chrysantha in Detroit, Onika in New Orleans, women with difficult names and difficult stories join GirlTrek every day and commit to walking as a practice of self-care. Once walking, those women get to organizing, first their families, then their communities, to walk and talk and solve problems together. They walk and notice the abandoned building. They walk and notice the lack of sidewalks, the lack of green space, and they say, "No more." Women like Susie Paige in Philadelphia, who after walking daily past an abandoned building in her neighborhood, decided, "I'm not waiting. Let me rally my team. Let me grab some supplies. Let me do what no one else has done for me and my community."

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