540 Launches New Online College-Style Course
Dear Community, We are so excited to launch a brand new 15-week online course starting February 21, 2023 Our new […]
Day: January 14, 2023
It Starts with Water: An Essay on Microaggressions, Erasure, and the Impact of White Supremacy
It starts with water I am trying to wash the colombian out of my hair The coarseness, it rises five […]
Why Is It So Hard to Become “Not Homeless”?
Why Is It So Hard to Become “Not Homeless”? The last few months of my life have been a roller […]
Critical Race Theory and Teacher Unions?
Teaching the Truth amidst attacks on Critical Race Theory This week I discovered that the Zinn pledge to Teach the […]
Don’t Kill My Vibe: On Letting Folks Have Small Wins
Don’t Kill My Vibe: On Letting Folks Have Small Wins The election is (somewhat) over. It took nearly a week […]
The Sexist Flap Over WAP
The Sexist Flap Over WAP After three months of consuming a healthy rotation of quasi-apocalyptic news podcasts, the first half […]
Environmental Justice Facilitator Spotlight | Megan Borruso
We are pleased to spotlight Megan Borruso who is a 540Monthly sustaining member and environmental justice facilitator About Megan Borruso […]
Shirley Chisholm: Unbought and Unbossed
A 540Monthly Membership ensures that 540WMain is able to create and curate low cost/high impact educational content and programming rooted […]
Donald Trump Isn’t Racist? Come Up With Something Else
A 540Monthly Membership ensures that we are able to create and curate low cost/high impact educational content and programming rooted […]
Diverse Women In Tech Spotlight | Dr. Deanna (Dee) Kimbrel
“We are pleased to spotlight Dr. Dee Kimbrel a black woman in tech Attend Diverse Women in Tech Mixer at […]
Desperately Searching for the Elephant in the Room: A Rochester Beacon Forum | A Blog of Words & Gifs
On a very rainy Monday, when my allergies were in high flare and a persistent cold rain had forced day […]
Why is Yoga for Everyone
Attend 540 at The Yards All Abilities Yoga | Sundays at 10:30 AM | $10 suggested donation | no registration […]
Dear White People: Blackface Is Always Racist!
We are pleased to share day XIV of 540’s 2nd Annual Digital Black History Month Education Campaign Dear White People, […]
Impact Matters More Than Intent
Impact Over Intent | Guest Blog by Sam Waters There’s been a lot of discussion about last week’s incident with […]
**Announcement 540WMain Welcomes Three New Community Volunteers
We are excited to announce the addition of three new 540Volunteers to our team Darian Ward Austin Retzlaff Annie Kwon […]
A Wednesday Word from the Director | Tis The Season for Thanks & Giving
Have you donated? 540, Inc’s 3rd Annual November Fundraising Campaign is going on now! Dear Community, 47 day…1140 minutes […]
Frederick Douglass
We are pleased to spotlight Frederick Douglass in day fourteen of our first annual 28 Days of Little Known Facts […]
March Positivity at 540WMain | Community Thank You
Dear Community, I like to give my sincerest thanks and gratitude for the tremendous support that 540WMain has received throughout […]
INvisible Beauty in Pain Artist Spotlight & Interview | Isabelle St-Pierre
The third INvisible Beauty in Pain Artist Spotlight hails all the way from Quebec, Canada. The INvisible Beauty In Pain […]
