The Current
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
White Lies-Masked Madness, by Tom Ficklin (Cohort 13)
“My folks have been trying to get folks to do the right thing since 1619, and I am totally spent, trying to do the collective therapy think healing pie-in-the-sky riff.”
Forgiveness: The Personal & The Policy (Part 1), by David Burden (Cohort 29)
“I spent those 14 years preparing myself to be a vessel on this side, and to come home and do what God called me to do...”