The Current
Holding Space Through Education, by Goldie Adele (Cohort 28)
"...education not only positively impacts the student, it also positively impacts the community. I hope we will each find unique ways to encourage the youth in our communities to pursue this impactful journey.”
Forgiveness: The Personal & The Policy (Part 2), by David Burden (Cohort 29)
“Where is the redemptive quality for this great nation – this melting pot of cultures and people? Where is the reconciliation?”
On Values: Voices From the Circle 2021
Reflections from throughout the year on race, justice, fighting, healing, forgiveness, life and death, humanity, compassion, culture, faith, equity, love, community, and so much more.
Imagining Better for Black and Brown Children, by Randi R. McCray (Cohort 12)
"Brown vs. Board of Education addressed the desegregation of schools, but not the desegregation of access to resources – and we still have not addressed it today."
What Can I Do? The Freed Woman Fund Answers, by Babz Rawls Ivy (Cohort 1)
“The question dogged me… What could I do? How could I extend that same care and concern to other Black women?”
Fighting the fight (and flights) that needs fighting, by Rachel Heerema (Cohort 2)
“...it is not a question of first getting enlightened or saved and then acting. As we work to heal the earth, the earth heals us." -Robin Wall Kimmerer