Racial Reckoning Discussion Series:

Toward Healing and Transformation

Part III: Interfaith Efforts

to Secure Racial Healing and Justice
Thursday, Aug. 17, 2023
1 p.m. (Eastern)

Racial Reckoning: Moving Toward Transformation and Healing is a series of one-hour, news-style conversations where we examine what, exactly, has changed or not changed in the 2+ years since widespread rallies for racial justice rocked the world, and what it will take to harness our renewed awareness of racial inequity into transformation, healing and narrative change.

In the third installment of our discussion series, we’ll shine a light on and critically examine interfaith efforts by prominent Christian, Jewish and Sikh communities to make racial justice a reality. Interfaith efforts were instrumental in ending apartheid in South Africa and undergirding the Civil Rights movement in America.

Join MMCA Aug. 17 as we explore the guiding principles that led to mobilizing, the progress of these efforts, obstacles to creating widespread and enduring change, and how, in these times of increased unrest, faith leaders have come together, to confront racism, and “interrogate religion’s role in making true racial justice a reality,” according to Rev. Audrey C. Price.

Religion news reporter Adelle Banks will lead our discussion with Rev. Price and other prominent faith leaders about the role of faith traditions in addressing the racial divisions in their ranks and in wider society, examining the obstacles and solutions to creating widespread and enduring change. The final show segment will be a call-to-action –cultivating ideas that will improve upon actions already begun toward racial reconciliation.

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Racial Reckoning Discussion Series Part III: Interfaith Efforts to Secure Racial Healing and Justice

Faith traditions play a unique role in addressing the racial divisions among their members and in wider society. They were instrumental in ending apartheid in South Africa and undergirding the Civil Rights movement in America. But how are religious leaders working to advance racial justice and healing in the wake of the summer of 2020 uprisings and the so-called racial reckoning they supposedly sparked?

Join us Aug. 17 as we examine those efforts, and cultivate ideas that improve upon them.

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Racial Reckoning: Moment or Movement?

In the summer of 2020, the widely publicized murder of George Floyd by Minneapolis police created global shockwaves that magnified and amplified the inherited disparities of a pre-pandemic segregationist society across the spectrum of life in America — in education, housing, jobs, business, finance, healthcare, transportation, access to food and other vital resources.

And yet, as U.S. Representative Barbara J. Lee (D-Calif.) recently noted, "This country has never had its truth-telling moment as it relates to the Middle Passage and the impacts of enslaving so many people for so many years."

“We’ve seen the manifestations of the enslavement of Africans through the murder of Mr. George Floyd, for example; through the disparities in healthcare, through Black and Brown people dying disproportionately from Covid. You can’t separate that from the trajectory of enslaving Africans to today," Lee said in her keynote speech at the October 2022 Truth and Transformation conference, hosted by the Harvard Kennedy School’s Ash Center. "After genocides, crimes against humanity, slavery, you can’t heal without people coming forth.”

MMCA has created a discussion series to provide space for exactly that — for people to come forth, to speak their truth, to feed a groundswell in activism and advocacy around antiracism, and to combat the mis/disinformation about race that is derailing our economy and threatening our fragile democracy.

Each discussion will provide insights and spark a debate that will then be summarized in a news story that, along with related content submitted by journalists and other contributors, will be syndicated and distributed to hundreds of BIPOC media outlets via the BIPOCXChange Media Wire. Our ultimate goal is for the BXC to serve as a repository for information, stories, and insights about the current racial justice movement that the media and private, public, and social sector DEI leaders can access.