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Wink Fellow Panel Discussion “A Reckoning in Boston”

FOR-USA and the Amherst Massachusetts African Heritage Reparation Assembly co-hosted an early screening of the documentary “A Reckoning in Boston” on December 9, 2021. The panel discussion afterward included FOR’s Inaugural Wink Fellow, Dr. Fernando Ona, along with the film’s co-Producer and co-founder of Boston’s Common Good Co-op Kafi Dixon and Evan Lewis, Assistant Dean for Community Outreach, UMass, Amherst.

December 13, 2021 No Comments

Wink Fellow Conversations–Kafi Dixon, “A Reckoning in Boston”

FOR’s Inaugural Wink Fellow, Dr. Fernando Ona, had the opportunity to speak with Co-Producer Kafi Dixon about her documentary “A Reckoning in Boston”

December 7, 2021 No Comments

Martin Luther King Jr. on America’s “obnoxious peace”

We celebrate Martin Luther King, Jr. Day this year at a time when our nation has come to a fork in the road and the fate of our democracy depends on the path we take. Just 12 days removed from

January 18, 2021 No Comments

Unfinished Democracy: Making Good Trouble for Racial Equity — 31st Annual Salem Peace Lecture

FOR USA’s executive director, Rev. Dr. Emma Jordan-Simpson, delivered the 31st Annual Salem Peace Lecture was held online on Thursday November 19th. Dr. Jordan-Simpson’s topic was “Unfinished Democracy: Making Good Trouble for Racial Equity.”

November 22, 2020 No Comments

White Too Long: The Legacy of White Supremacy in American Christianity–Brooklyn Historical Society

Robert P. Jones, CEO and founder of Public Religion Research Institute and a leading scholar of religion and politics, shares his latest work, “White Too Long: The Legacy of White Supremacy in American Christianity,” which puts forth a thorough examination of the history of interdenominational complicity with white supremacy, and argues for congregations to embrace a theology of racial justice.

September 25, 2020 No Comments