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Racial Justice

Presbyterian Week of Action embraces digital engagement

How do you gather and engage people into action during a pandemic and time of social distancing? The organizers of the Presbyterian Week of Action looked to digital online options to make the events accessible, informative and inspiring.

#Give828 raises $32,000 for efforts to develop leaders of color

As civil rights activists gathered in Washington, D.C., on Friday for the 57th anniversary of the historic March on Washington, Americans were reminded of the day’s significance. It was on August 28, 1963, when the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. delivered his iconic “I Have A Dream” speech during that landmark event. 

‘We must be an irritant to the justice system’

Presbyterians and their partners in Louisville, Kentucky and in cities across the country took to the streets Saturday as part of the Presbyterian Week of Action, calling for an end to racial violence and attracting honks of support from motorists as the Louisville assembly of nearly 150 people marched from the Presbyterian Center to a downtown square honoring Breonna Taylor.

A somber hour during the Week of Action

Presbyterians paused during their Week of Action Thursday to take a more introspective and personal action: mourning the deaths of 183,000 Americans and more than 832,000 people around the world who have perished from COVID-19.

‘There is a God who sits high and looks low’

Though the Rev. Rola Al Ashkar grew up close to where Jesus Christ lived and shares a similar ethnicity to Christ, she still had to unlearn a Western-influenced, blonde-hair and blue-eyed image of Christ.

Menaul School is fully functional during COVID-19

The COVID-19 pandemic has caused the entire world to rethink the way we conduct some of our most routine practices. Each year at this time schools across the nation would be welcoming their students and staff for another year of learning.

Presbyterian Center bears witness on its walls

The international headquarters of the Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.) will be bearing witness to God’s love for Black lives and solidarity with calls for an end to systemic racism on its exterior wall later this week.