A Brave Space with Dr. Meeks

A Brave Space with Dr. Meeks will support the work of the Absalom Jones Center for Racial Healing in its mission of creating brave space where the truth can be told. The sessions will explore various topics that address the intersections between slavery, lynching, the prison industrial complex, the death penalty and 21st-century police killings and the ways in which these issues prohibit racial healing in America. There will be a wide variety of guests who will assist the host and Absalom Jones CenterDirector in engaging the crucial topic of racial healing from their wide range of experiences as resistors to racism and in seeking racial healing.

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A Brave Space with Dr. Meeks

Can’t We All Just Get Along?

June 01, 2022 • Dr. Catherine Meeks • Episode 38

In this episode of a Brave Space Podcast, Executive Director of the Absalom Jones Center for Racial Healing and podcast host, Chelsi Glascoe concludes Asian-American Pacific Islander Heritage Month by reviewing the powerful program, Celebration of Asian American & Pacific Islander month program (Watch it here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ed1BWYsYwIk&t=3013s).

This recap inspired conversation and deep reflection on the power of racial groups uniting together. Dr. Martin Luther King said “Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere. We are caught in an inescapable network of mutuality, tied in a single garment of destiny. Whatever affects one directly, affects all indirectly.”

What causes racial groups to fight alone? Does working together dilute individual cultural distinctiveness? What is the change of heart, mind, and effort required to live braver and become healed? Tune in to discover such wisdom now!