Some picks from AFSC staff this week:
Interrupting Pride for Black Lives via Truthout
A group of Black youth in Chicago honored the memory of those whose actions the gay pride parade is meant to honor this past Sunday.
Black churches taught us to forgive white people. We learned to shame ourselves via The Guardian
A moving reflection by author Kiese Laymon “After the shootings in Charleston, I talked to my Grandma about all the work we did to forgive white supremacy, hoping then to be chosen by them and by God.”
Bryan Stevenson on Charleston and our real problem with race via The Marshall Project
“I don’t believe slavery ended in 1865, I just believe it evolved.”
Bryan Stevenson has spent most of his career challenging bias against minorities and the poor in the criminal justice system. He is the founder and executive director of the Equal Justice Initiative, based in Montgomery, Ala., an advocacy group that opposes mass incarceration and racial injustice. Stevenson is a member of The Marshall Project’s advisory board.
