Racial/Wealth Gap Widening
Last week those of us who care about justice and seeing all people experience God’s Kingdom shalom got some bad news…
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Census Race Conversations
My friend had trouble filling out her Census survey. She mentioned it to me a week or two ago and I hadn’t opened ours yet, so I asked why.
The Christmas “Jesus from Below”
Last week, I received the following e.mail update from Kris Rocke. I’ve come to respect Kris, who is one of teachers in our FYI Urban Youth Ministry Certificate program…
Risks by Ethnicity
Anyone who follows statistics knows they can end up distorted. They often end up misquoted and misinterpreted.
Diverse Schools Create Racial Divide
I continue to be fascinated by this Newsweek article on kids and race. In particular, here’s a disturbing excerpt…
Kids Aren’t Colorblind Adults Need to Talk With Them
Irene on our FYI staff team sent me this fascinating Newsweek article on kids and race. It’s long, but worth the read. Highlights for me…
Who Gets to Swim?
Not black kids; not in this pool in Philadelphia. Even if they’ve paid up.
You may have seen this in the news last week, but in case you missed it, a summer camp contracted with a private…
Racism’s Unseen Injustices
Yesterday I caught an article detailing a fascinating chronicle of an unlikely justice-seeker’s journey in the academic research realm…
Segregated Proms
I guess I’m still a bit naive about the racial divide here in the U.S. I had no idea that there was still such a thing as segregated Senior Proms but the New York Times ran an
Justice in the Village
Last week I took my eight year-old son, Nathan, to Chinatown in Los Angeles for Chinese New Year Festivities. I had never seen a real “Dragon Parade” live and Nathan and I got a kick out of the dragons, the…