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Tag Archives: black lives matter
Collaborations Shape CRSL’s Spring Semester
by Kim Alston
The spring semester was a whirlwind of spirited activity. Many collaborative ventures stretched our intellect, consciousness, and empathy, including the Engaging Identity series with the Wellness Education Office; The Refugee Resettlement Project with the Jandon Center for Community Engagement; the … Continue reading
Student Advisory Board Strives for Inclusion and Advocacy
The Center for Religious and Spiritual Life’s Student Advisory Board is a group of students that gather to advise the Center on a variety of things. Part of our job is to help plan events, like vigils and contemplative spaces, … Continue reading
Posted in Social Justice, Student Orgs, Student Posts
Tagged black lives matter, CRSL news, interfaith, race/racism, Student Advisory Board
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Black Lives Matter:
A Global Decentralized Movement
The Meridians, a feminist and interdisciplinary journal, hosted a dialogue Friday, October 14 on the Black Lives Matter Movement in John M. Greene Hall as the keynote event of the symposium “When and Where I Enter.” The event was co-sponsored … Continue reading
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Tagged black lives matter, national news, quotes, world news
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MLK & Justice, Identity, and Social Change Initiative (Part 1)
Over January Term (or J-term), two students participated in a fellowship for with our Center as part of our Justice, Identity, and Social Change (JISC) initiative. These students, Raven Fowlkes-Witten and Lucy Tucker, serve on our JISC advisory board. The … Continue reading
Posted in Interfaith Matters, Social Justice
Tagged black lives matter, identity, interfaith, race/racism
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Black Lives Matter Panel: We the Protestors
On Monday, a conversation called “We the Protesters: Policy, Discourse and the Movement for Black Lives” was held in Weinstein Auditorium, hosting a panel featuring Fordham University Political Science Professor Christina Greer, Columbia University History and Sociomedical Sciences Professor Samuel … Continue reading
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The Justice, Identity, and Social Change Initiative:
Spiritual Life Meets Social Justice
It feels like the World is burning. This is what Sensei Ryumon Baldoquin, Community Religious Adviser, said at our first “Peace Meal,” a gathering for dialogue and discussion of difficult problems. Certainly in the last few weeks, with the … Continue reading
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Tagged black lives matter, identity, interfaith, race/racism, spirituality
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Our Inescapable Network of Mutuality
Amidst the cacophony of all that I am reading, hearing, and taking in response to the verdict in the Ferguson Grand Jury deliberation,—which I am, like many of us, just barely beginning to sort through—I have little, if anything, different or new … Continue reading
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Tagged black lives matter, Christianity, identity, interfaith, politics, race/racism
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