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DOWNLOAD ROUNDTABLE TRANSCRIPT/ ADD YOUR NAME – STOP SLAVERY FINALLY ABSTRACT Section 1. Amendment XIII. Ratified December 6, 1865 “Neither slavery nor involuntary servitude, except as a punishment for crime whereof the party shall have been duly convicted, shall exist within the United States, nor any place subject to their jurisdiction.” Section 1. Amendment XIV. […]

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Oakland, CA — Following a white nationalist, Ku Klux Klan-sponsored “Unite the Right” rally in Charlottesville, Virginia, Black church faith leaders and denominations, today joined other clergy in announcing a “Weeks of Righteous Resistance” initiative to push back on hate and racism. Prompted by the hostile treatment of fellow faith leaders — Rev. Traci Blackmon, […]

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To deepen our understanding and to strengthen our solidarity in the ongoing struggle for the collective safety and liberation of our people.

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On 25 May – commonly know as Africa Day and officially as African Liberation Day – there will be a series of actions and events across the continent to mark the launch of the movement.

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  “WE HAVE A BEAUTIFUL HISTORY, AND WE SHALL CREATE ANOTHER IN THE FUTURE THAT WILL ASTONISH THE WORLD.”–MARCUS GARVEY                 #ImAfricanBornIn                           Join in the 2017 African Diaspora Conversation In celebration of the International Decade for People of African Descent Through your […]

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Over the past two years, faith groups representing 118 million Americans mobilized to call on the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau to enact a strong rule addressing the harms of 300% interest payday lending debt traps.

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 Samuel DeWitt Proctor Conference holds vigil for Sandra Bland. #ITooResist

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WEEK(S) OF RIGHTEOUS RESISTANCE (WORR) #THISISWORR http://thisisworr.org/ JOIN US FOR A WEEK OF RIGHTEOUS RESISTANCE (WORR) TO BEGIN SUNDAY, JULY 12 AND END SATURDAY, JULY 18 My eyes fail from weeping, I am in torment within; my heart is poured out on the ground because my people are destroyed, because children and infants faint in […]

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View Break the Silence PSA from national leaders Every year in the third week of October, people throughout the globe gather to commemorate the millions of lives lost in the conflict in the Congo while celebrating the country’s enormous human and natural potential.   1.) Film Screening FOTC’s short film (26 minutes) Crisis in the […]

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The Reverend Dr. Eboni Marshall Turman is Director of the Office of Black Church Studies and Assistant Research Professor of Black Church Studies at Duke University Divinity School. On April 15th more than 300 teenage girls were abducted from the Chibok Government Girls Secondary School in northeast Nigeria. #UpliftNigeria is a social media campaign calling on […]

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