Intersection of Race, Religion & Politics - Parts 3 & 4
September 28, 2024 Workshop #3 - Race & Religion October 27, 2024 Workshop #4 - The Racial Reasoning of White Voters
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Intersection of Race, Religion & Politics - Part 1 & 2
April 27, 2024 Workshop #1 - Building Common Ground/Knowing Our Racial Landscape May 19, 2024 Workshop #2 - Common Ways of Talking About...
Stop the Hate Rally - 10/28/2023
Our Response To Our Granby Community, On Saturday morning October 21, 2023 many residents of Granby awoke to find a flyer in their...
God and Race
A virtual 30-minute weekly Bible Study: God and Race Wednesdays, March 1 - 31, 2023 @ 7:00 pm
Jan 21, 2023
Bryan Stevenson: Justice System Reformer
“Each person in our society is more than the worst thing they’ve ever done.” This is one of Bryan Stevenson’s core beliefs. Stevenson is...
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Jan 21, 2023
Melanie Campbell: Making Sure Black Women Aren’t Invisible
On Christmas Eve in 1951, the Ku Klux Klan in Mims, Florida took a torch to the home of NAACP activists Harry and Harriette Moore. The...
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Jan 21, 2023
Emmanuel Acho: Uncomfortable Conversations with a Black Man
Emmanuel Acho’s parents emigrated from Nigeria and raised their four children in Dallas, Texas. From a young age, they instilled in him a...
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Jan 21, 2023
Dr. Kizzmekia S. Corbett: Developer of the prototype for the Moderna Covid-19 Vaccine
At the ripe old age of thirty-four, Dr. Kizzmekia S. Corbett used her skills as a viral immunologist to alter the course of a world-wide...
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Jan 21, 2023
Amanda Gorman: Youth Poet Laureate and Activist
At the age of twenty-four, Amanda Gorman has the awareness and wisdom of a woman three times her age. Born in the Watts neighborhood of...
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Jan 21, 2023
Marva Collins: Revolutionary Teacher of the “Unteachable”
Marva Collins became a teacher out of necessity. Growing up in segregated Alabama in the wake of the Depression, she attended a one-room...
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Jan 21, 2023
Steve Henson: Creator of Hidden Valley Ranch Dressing
In 1949, thirty-one year old Steve Henson and his wife, Gayle, decided to leave their home in Nebraska and head off for the unknown in...
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Jan 21, 2023
Joyce Ardell Jackson and Brad Lomax: Disability Rights Activists
The 1950s and 1960s saw hard earned gains in civil rights legislation. Despite enormous opposition from Deep South states, civil rights...
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Jan 15, 2023
Katherine Johnson, Dorothy Vaughan and Mary Jackson: NASA’s Hidden Figures
Many of the women profiled so far faced both racism and the added burden of sexism. Given the opportunity, women proved they could be...
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Jan 15, 2023
Edward W. Brooke, III: First Black U.S. Senator
Edward W. Brooke was born in 1919 to a middle-class family in Washington, D.C. His father was a lawyer, so the family’s income and...
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Jan 15, 2023
Lucille and Ruby Bridges: First Black Child to Integrate a White Elementary School
When The U.S. Supreme Court struck down school segregation in Brown v. Board of Education (1954), the impact was initially both...
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Jan 15, 2023
The Deacons for Defense and Justice: Armed Protectors of Civil Rights
If you grew up Black in the South during the Jim Crow era, it was virtually guaranteed that in addition to experiencing discrimination...
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Jan 15, 2023
Georgia Gilmore: Food Activist Who Fed the Montgomery Boycotters
In 1955, a thirty-six year old single mother of six boarded a public bus in Montgomery, Alabama. After she dropped her coins into the...
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Jan 15, 2023
Fannie Lou Hamer: The woman who was sick and tired of being sick and tired.
Fannie Lou Hamer was the youngest of twenty children, born to Mississippi sharecroppers in 1917. Even though Polio left her with a limp,...
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Jan 15, 2023
Bayard Rustin: Master Organizer for Civil Rights, Gay Rights and Human Rights
An entire year could be spent profiling the hundreds of civil rights leaders who worked tirelessly for abolition, desegregation, and...
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Jan 15, 2023
Charles Hamilton Houston: The Man Who Killed Jim Crow
As a child born to a middle-class family in 1895, Charles Hamilton Houston already had advantages that most Black children could only...
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Jan 15, 2023
Dorothy Dandridge: First Black Woman Nominated for Best Actress Academy Award
We’d love to have a full month profiling courageous people who broke down barriers and succeeded against all odds. But what makes stories...
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Jan 15, 2023
John Oliver Killens:Founding Member of the Harlem Writer’s Guild
If you’ve ever used the phrase “Kicking ass and taking names,” you have John Oliver Killens to thank for putting your feelings into...
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Jan 15, 2023
Dr. Charles Drew: Creator of the Life Saving Blood Bank
When Charles Drew was born in Washington, D.C. in 1904, school attendance wasn’t required. It wouldn’t become compulsory for another...
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Jan 15, 2023
Annie Turnbo Malone and Madam CJ Walker: Self-Made Millionaires
In 1896, the Supreme Court’s Plessy vs. Ferguson decision upheld Jim Crow laws, creating the “separate but equal” doctrine that would be...
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