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Victims of Gun Violence remembered at Norris Square through an art installation, Good Friday, 2018

Victims of Gun Violence remembered at Norris Square through an art installation, Good Friday, 2018

A Day to Listen and Share Considering Justice

November 10, 3-6:30

Sponsors:

Abington Presbyterian Church

Cheltenham Area Multi-Faith Council

Made possible in part through a gift from the Fricker Fund at Abington Presbyterian Church.

Agenda and Panelist Biographies:

Mary Kay Meeks, Face-to-Face, Germantown

Adan Mairena, West Kensington Ministry, Philadelphia

Barbara McNeil: Links to handout for further study

Jack Herzig, Immigration Lawyer

Todd Clark, Supervisor, Pennsylvania Board of Probation and Parole

Resources

Listed below are the resources Barbara McNeil’s shared on racism—the gorilla in the room!

Added to the list: 1619 Project. The New York Times (episodes begin August 23, 2019) LINK

Race and Justice: For Further Study:

  • Gates, H.L. (2019) Stony the Road: Reconstruction, White Supremacy, and the Rise of Jim Crow. New York: Penguin Press.

  • Neiman, S. (2019) Learning from the Germans: Race and the Memory of Evil. New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux.

  • Powell, J. A. (2015). Racing to Justice: Transforming our Conceptions of Self and Other to Build an Inclusive Society. Bloomington: Indiana University Press.

  • Theoharis, J. (2018). A More Beautiful and Terrible History: the Uses and Misuses of Civil Rights History. Boston: Beacon Press.

  • Weed, E. (2019). The Religion of White Supremacy in the United States. New York: Lexington Books

  • The Haas Institute for a Fair and Inclusive Society / Othering & Belonging Institute at UC Berkeley April 17, 2019 “Building Belonging in a Time of Othering, with John A. Powell.” Retrieved November 5, 2019 from https://youtu.be/7swI6jZ0rd4

  • “1619 Project.” The New York Times Magazine, 18 August 2019. https://pulitzercenter.org/sites/default/files/full_issue_of_the_1619_project.pdf

Resources on Prison Reform: