Martin Luther King Jr. Day
Reading While Black
Esau McCaulley leads us in Biblical interpretation as an excercise in hope. One of our student leaders will be leading a book discussion this semester on this book as well.
Black Liturgies
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Seeing White
Check out this brief podcast series for a sober and honest look at white privilege for those who struggle to really understand what it is and how it came to exist.
Letter From Birmingham Jail
Hear from Dr. King himself in probably the most important written document from the Civil Rights era..
NAACP Legal Defense Fund
Help fight for equality, access to education, employment, health care, housing, environmental justice, voting rights, criminal justice. Provides scholarships, African-American undergraduates and law students.
The Legacy of MLK
When Martin Luther King Jr. died, he had a 75% disapproval rating; now he has an APPROVAL rating of over 90%. What gives? Is the version of MLK we remember the one he’d want to be known for? “The majority of white Americans consider themselves sincerely committed to justice for the Negro. They believe that American society is essentially hospitable to fair play and steady growth toward a middle-class Utopia embodying racial harmony. But unfortunately this is a fantasy of self-deception and comfortable vanity.”
White Women’s Tears
This is a raw, honest, informative, solidarity-building conversation between Jen Hatmaker and author and Freedom Road founder and president Lisa Sharon Harper.