Faith and Racial Healing: Embracing Truth, Justice, and Restoration

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Session 1: One-Day Retreat: Community-Building & Self-Reflection
Session 2: Session 1: Review of History of Racial Injustice
Session 3: Session 2: The Middle Passage
Session 4: Session 3: Reading and Discussion of Slave Narratives
Session 5: Session 4: Convict Leasing
Session 6: Session 5: Confessing Our History of Lynching
Session 7: Session 6: Civil Rights and the Struggle for Equal Education
Session 8: Immersion Experience (to be determined by the group)
Session 9: Session 7: Theology of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.
Session 10: Session 8: Guest Speaker and Discerning Next (Action) Steps

Participants discuss how White resistance during school integration affected — and continues to affect — the education of our nation’s children.