This article was originally published in The Christian Post on Friday, 11 May 2018. Sunday, May 13th is Mother's day, an important day set aside to celebrate mothers. One of the ways we will celebrate here in America is through gifts. As a country we will spend upward of 21 million dollars to honor [...]Read More
Answering the Call: Rooted and Ready
By Noel Castellanos Over the last 30 years, CCDA has been a catalyst for envisioning and encouraging leaders like myself to follow God’s calling to work among the poor throughout our nation. The organization has taught me about the three R’s and 8 Key Components of CCDA. I was exposed to other [...]Read More
Unlocked: An Open Mic Night for LIS 2018
150 people gathered for “Unlocked: An Open Mic Night” at Rosebud Coffee in Pasadena, California to celebrate and amplify the voices, performances, and visual art pieces of communities impacted by mass incarceration. The night included 20 artists who debuted their art publicly, some for the [...]Read More
“Is it just too much to rise up and fight against injustice?”
As part of Shaw University’s Religious Emphasis Week, over two hundred undergraduates gathered for a forum on the calling to moral leadership and social justice on Tuesday, February 7, at 11 am. Framed in the context of the Locked in Solidarity focus on ending mass incarceration, Dr. Mikael [...]Read More
Davidson County Transitional Services Remains Locked in Solidarity
Davidson County Transitional Services got involved with this event kind of late but knew that I could not let this opportunity pass our community by. I planned about four days of events which included a expungement clinic, employee rights clinic, a viewing and discussion of the featured [...]Read More
Answering the Call: a Lesson in Resilience
Noel Castellanos In 1989, I was living in San Jose, California where I worked in ministry with Latino youth. Like many leaders in urban communities, I was struggling to establish a ministry that was both relevant and impactful. I came to realize there were needs in the community to be addressed, [...]Read More
Networking Sessions: A Unique & Intimate Experience
by Heather Beaudoin As a CCDA member and staff member of Equal Justice USA, I’ve been incredibly grateful to CCDA for giving us the opportunity to host a networking session during the annual national conference. This will mark the 4th year that we’ve hosted a networking session, and looking back, [...]Read More
The Legacy of Martin Luther King, Jr. Declaring Eternal Hostility to Racism
By Dr. Kit Danley 50th Anniversary Commemoration of the Assassination of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. "Continuing the Sacrifice for our Future" Our family and our ministry have lived embedded in a multi-ethnic/largely Latino community for almost 40 years. Though we have lived in communities of [...]Read More