A Conversation: Undoing Racism in American Cities

Undoing Racism in America’s Cities is a discussion with city leaders and other experts on local efforts to respond to the national crises that have elevated issues of race, racism, racial healing and racial equity.

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The Racial Dot Map

Part of my task is to make you and I aware of conversations, communities and tools that are connected to the social construct of race.  While I am not an “ambulance chaser” when it comes to such matters, I do feel an obligation to write about race- related and racialized events in an effort to […]

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Why you can’t wait

“Perhaps…the nation and the world are in dire need of creative extremists.”  ~ Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., Why We Can’t Wait It is strange to me that we have not seen beyond race, that it remains the supreme way in which we understand ourselves and each other.  I cannot believe that after nearly […]

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Myth: The Best Way to Understand Martin Luther King is “Doctor King”

With the number of articles now being written and the conversations that include his name in steady decline since the holiday has passed and community service projects are complete, reminders like this one must continue.  In Myth: The Best Way to Understand Martin Luther King is “Doctor King”, Chris Rice follows up on the Washington Post‘s list of […]

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Revisiting King’s Dream

With the New Year, there is talk of resolutions, reading lists and new Bible study series (Well, maybe the last one isn’t on the minds of most people.).  Ann Voskamp provides a thoughtful and engaging means to consider those things that we have resolved to do.  It can become more than a to- do list if […]

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