Remembering and Honoring Past Massacres: The Legacy and Resilience of the Victims
Remembering and Honoring Past Massacres: the Legacy and Resilience of the Victims
This webinar conversation will start by marking the 100th year anniversary of the Tulsa Race Riot, and will broaden its scope on other similar tragic events the English-speaking Americas (USA, Canada and the Caribbean).
This webinar will be a conversation (not a lecture) and remembrance, punctuated with moments of art (poetry, drums). A moment to lament, but also to recognize these fallen heroes. Other webinars focussing on the same issue of past massacres will be organized throughout the year and will focus on other regions.
We invite you to register here for this event:
https://us02web.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_qsguoT97Th2e76YIYcmNvw
Moderator: Bishop Mary-Ann Swenson, WCC Central Committee
Co-facilitator: Rev. Dr. Mikie A. Roberts, WCC programme executive for Spiritual Life
Panellists:
- Rev. Dr. Robert Turner, pastor of Historic Vernon chapel A.M.E. church, Tulsa, Oklahoma and academic dean for Jackson Theological Seminary
- Dr. Michael McEachrane, co-founder and consultative member of the European Network of People of African Descent
- Mrs. Jennifer P. Martin, Education in Mission Secretary, Caribbean and North America Council for Mission (CANACOM)
- Dr. Daniel D. Lee, academic dean of the Centre for Asian American Theology and Ministry, assistant professor of theology and Asian American ministry at Fuller Theological Seminary
- Mr. Russel Burns, member of the National Indigenous Ministries and Justice Council (NIC), of the Indigenous caucus of Western Mining Action Network (WMAN), and of the Comprehensive Review Task Group (CRTG) of the United Church of Canada.
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