On January 12, 2013, a film screening of the Emmy-nominated film, The House I Live In, will be made available, without cost, to all faith communities in the United States.
African-American Faith Leaders traveled to the Democratic Republic of Congo to meet with Congolese Ecumenical leaders, the President of Congo and to participate in a fact-finding tour of east Congo.
African-American Faith Leaders traveled to the Democratic Republic of Congo to meet with Congolese Ecumenical leaders, the President of Congo and to participate in a fact-finding tour of east Congo.
African-American Faith Leaders traveled to the Democratic Republic of Congo to meet with Congolese Ecumenical leaders, the President of Congo and to participate in a fact-finding tour of east Congo.
For enduring peace to have a chance, two conditions must be met: First, a Congolese state responsive to the interests of its people and capable of exercising authority over the entire country must emerge; and second, there should be a nonviolent dismantling of the Rwandan-backed militias in Eastern Congo.
As a relatively young Black leader in Baltimore, I refuse to be a meal ticket for white people who are not genuinely invested in the Black community. There are too many Black children’s lives at stake to play polite parlor games for grant money, prestige and status with white liberals.
On election night in 2008, those two narratives were held in tension as a multi-racial and intergenerational nation celebrated its fait accompli. Regardless of the outcome next Tuesday, the election of Barack Obama remains a defining moment in American history—for better or for worse.