Following the police involved shooting death of Breonna Taylor in 2020, two sisters from Louisville decided to do their own part to combat racism.

In the years that have followed, their efforts have grown into a community based program to educate and change attitudes about race and relationships between the races.

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A little nonprofit that began back in May of 2020 with my sister Debbie Laporte, and it was in the wake of Breonna Taylor's murder.

We decided that we were outraged.

We know nothing about how to be an anti-racist or justice warrior or anything like that, but we definitely had to do something about it.

We wrote an email to our friends and just said, We have to do something.

Will you join us?

This was drafted for 50 women and if you are in.

Just reply.

Yes.

The next morning we got replies from 100 people we knew we had touched a nerve.

At the beginning our name was White Women demand Justice for Breonna Taylor.

As we went on and further and further, we realized there was so much more for us to address and that we wanted everybody in it with us.

So we dropped the white women and we dropped that.

It was specifically about what happened to Breonna.

And what we are trying to do is learn everything that we can by listening to black leaders, by reading, forming ourselves.

And then we try to give that information to other people, try to kind of be a bridge.

The anti-racism challenge.

We both take these lifestyle challenges sometimes where you don't eat certain foods and you exercise every day and you sleep well.

And and the idea is that after doing this practice for a month or so, you have better habits.

And we thought that should be applied to anti-racism.

And so we developed it.

We realized this is a lifelong thing.

This isn't something that you just do occasionally.

This is something that you have to do again and again and again to break old, old in our DNA.

Genes of racism.

It goes so many generations back.

And if we pretend that it's not there, it will always rear its ugly head.

We create a list of activities that people can do can be anywhere from.

Read this article or write your council person about this or patronize this black owned business.

These types of things just gives people an entry way to understand ending and seeing what else is worth seeing what's going on out there that you can do something.

The the fear is always been, I don't know what to do.

I don't know what to do.

Well, here, do this.

And it's really important to us to bring in as many people as we can.

Listen, Learn Act is a multi-media adventure in nature, actually offering everything from in-person classes to written articles and the anti-racism challenge in its programing.