Tuesday, March 7, 2017 at 4:30pm
Hallock Auditorium, Adam Joseph Lewis Center for Environmental Studies
122 Elm Street, Oberlin, OH 44074
Reverend Traci Blackmon, a United Church of Christ pastor in Ferguson, Missouri, and Rabbi Susan Talve, a reform rabbi in St. Louis, will share lessons in movement building, solidarity, and faith from the perspective of their ongoing commitments to local, national, and global freedom struggles.
Sarika Talve-Goodman will moderate the discussion. She is a 2017-19 Mellon Postdoctoral Fellow in Jewish Studies and Comparative Literature at Oberlin College, and faculty in residence at J-House.
Rev. Blackmon and Rabbi Talve have been working together on the front lines of the anti-racist protest movement in Ferguson since it erupted in the summer of 2014, in the wake of the murder of Michael Brown.
Since then, Ferguson has become a kind of ground zero for intersectional, anti-racist struggle nationally and around the world, such as Black Lives Matter. Clergy activists have played a key role in shaping strategies of resistance as well as modeling the messy work of creating solidarities through difference.
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Brenda Hall
440-775-8866
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