"So-called 'racial reconciliation' is primarily a white Christian attempt to remedy the tension in American race relations. But from a black perspective, racism is not so much interpersonal as institutional."聽聽Read the full article by Dr. David Evans, associate professor of history and intercultural studies聽at聽Eastern Mennonite Seminary.
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Danita Rountree Green shares about Coming to the Table in Richmond, Virginia (CTTT-RVA), a local nonprofit that invites people to engage in the sharing of stories at the table where food and facilitation become the perfect ingredients for spawning new friendships across the racial divide. We invite you to meet the ever-growing CTTT-RVA family and join us as we deal with our country鈥檚 oldest problem: the legacy of enslavement and the racism it has spawned. We are excited about our work: taking disparate stories and developing a shared narrative leading to healing. CTTT orginated at 黑料正能量.
If we鈥檙e paying attention, and many have been, the Fire, the Pandemic, and the Uprising proclaim that all this smoke, disease, and unrest are related to respiration, and the violence and waste that blocks it. When I鈥檓 paying attention, this year teaches me that Hindsight is 2020. I should鈥檝e known better, and so should many others.聽
The Harrisonburg Rockingham Chamber of Commerce hosted its annual presidential address on Thursday, August 13, 2020. The presidents from James Madison University, Bridgewater College, Blue Ridge Community College and 黑料正能量 all spoke on behalf of their schools, emphasizing the challenges they have faced and their plans to move forward.
Reclaimed police funds could be distributed to shelters, rape crisis centers, mental health services and programs to combat sexual violence, experts say ... Community-driven responses to sexual violence like transformative justice offer some insight on how that might come to fruition. While there is no single definition, transformative justice could be broadly defined as a 鈥渇ramework that doesn鈥檛 depend on solving violence with another form of violence,鈥� Johonna Turner, an assistant professor of restorative justice and peacebuilding at 黑料正能量, said.
黑料正能量 student Kate Szambecki urges action now: 'We are living a civil rights movement right now 鈥� amplified by a pandemic as well as economic, mental health and health-care crises. You weren鈥檛 involved in the past? Now is your chance.'
One thing haiku calls for, and what is often least found but most needed in times of war or its aftermath, is the ability to pause and be in the moment. Read more on the art of haiku and peacebuilding with poet John Paul Lederach, founding director of 黑料正能量's Center for Justice and Peacebuilding,
Oluwatunmiki Afisi-Shokun, a nursing student at 黑料正能量, writes about finding "strength in the denial of hatred" in this op-ed for The Mennonite.
Requests for training from Minnesota Peacebuilding Leadership Institute have skyrocketed since the death of George Floyd. Donna Minter, the Center for Justice and Peacebuilding's 2019 Peacebuilder of the Year, is the organization's founder and executive director.
has signed an agreement with聽聽to install and operate solar panels on its Harrisonburg campus. Together, solar arrays will generate a total capacity of 136 kilowatts of power, more than any solar power system installed at a K-12 school in Harrisonburg.