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Join DIVERSITY UNITED on Tuesday, December 21, 2021 for “With all deliberate speed,” as Deirdre Edwards, Administrator at the Riverside County, California Office of Education and Rev, Dr. Albert Edwards, III, the CEO and Founder of 7th & Hope, LLC, discuss educational disparity and its historical and contemporary impact on the achievement and learning gaps in marginalized communities.
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The regular members of the Diversity United panel are:
Rev. Louise-Scott Rountree is the manager of the Newark Mayor’s Office of Clergy Affairs and chair of the Newark Interfaith Alliance.
Walter Robinson is an award winning composer and lyricist, and the composer of the Pre-amble, which opens up every DIVERSITY UNITED program.
Rabbi Capers Funnye: “Obama’s Rabbi,” Michelle Obama’s cousin, the leader of 200-member Beth Shalom B’nai Zaken Ethiopian Hebrew Congregation of Chicago.
Pastor Steffie Bartley: New Jersey Coordinator, National Action Network and Pastor, New Hope Memorial Baptist Church, Elizabeth, New Jersey.
Mildred Crump: This longtime community leader is Newark’s first African-American Councilwoman and first woman to be chosen as City Council President.
DIVERSITY UNITED is a year-long program of outreach to people of all faiths, ethnicities, and races in Newark and the surrounding suburban communities, to discuss an anti-racist agenda and create a tangible platform to work collectively toward a just society.
We discuss issues of social justice, including mass incarceration, education, housing, healthcare, environmental justice, poverty, Jim Crow, and public monuments, all from the viewpoint of the systemic inequalities that have resulted from 401 years of American History.
The forum is formatted as a book club, with participants viewing films and reading materials before each of the monthly meetings. The panelists, African-American leaders, who have spent their lives in the trenches battling for civil rights, equality, and justice, lead discussion.
To watch videos of our previous events click here.
If you have not previously registered to receive the link for this free program, click here: Registration Form.
For further information, contact Eric Freedman at
diversityunited@yahoo.com or or 201.988.3799.
If you have any problems with the link call Jeff at 973-207-3095.