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
Cultivating generative friendships among practitioners of CCD
"I am CCDA." "Dear Familia..." We use these phrases and descriptors a lot in our CCDA circles. Both reveal the essence of who we are as an association. I am CCDA, speaks to being a community of practitioners doing Christian community development. What you and I do as we live out the key components [...]Read More