Join us for a Live Video Chat with Dr. Keri Day, author of “Unfinished Business: Black Women, the Black Church, and the Struggle to Thrive in America” and Special guest co-host, Rev. Osagyefo Uhuru Sekou
This striking portrayal of the poverty of black women in this country describes the unemployment, underemployment, isolation, and lack of assets they typically experience. Day also takes on and demolishes the common stereotypes that castigate poor black women as “morally problematic and dependent on the money of good tax-paying citizens.”
Day then calls on the black churches to become potential agents of change and leaders in addressing the unequal social and economic structures that hold captive these poor women. The goal is to empower poor black women to develop assets that will prevent long-term poverty and allow them to flourish.
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“A pioneering and path-blazing work in Christian ethics that combines a sophisticated class-based notion of thriving with an asset-building approach of public policy for prophetic Christian praxis. Keri Day makes Martin Luther King, Jr. and Fanny Lou Hamer smile from the grave!” —Cornel West
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 Keri Day, PhD |
Keri Day is an assistant professor of theological and social ethics and the director of Black Church Studies at Brite Divinity School in Fort Worth, Texas. She has chapters forthcoming in three books, including The Oxford Handbook of African-American Theology. |
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 Rev. Osagyefo Uhuru Sekou |
Rev. Osagyefo Uhuru Sekou is an author, documentary filmmaker, public intellectual, organizer, pastor and theologian. Considered one of the foremost religious leaders of his generation, Rev. Sekou is the founding Senior Minister of The Freedom Church of NYC. He also serves as Editor-in-Chief of Spare Change News. |
Jamye Wooten is the founder and publisher of KineticsLive.com ; a faith-rooted organizer that has documented social movements from across the United States, United Kingdom and Africa. He is the former program director of the Collective Banking Group, Inc. (CBG), a Christian ministry that draws together leaders from the faith, business, and public service sectors to develop and enhance economic empowerment strategies for the African American community.
