Then and Now: Blacks and Jews
Date
2019-02-08
DOI
Authors
Boston University Howard Thurman Center for Common Ground
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Boston University Howard Thurman Center for Common Ground. "Then and Now: Blacks and Jews" 2019-02-08. Accessed at uri on [insert date].
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When Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. and Rabbi Abraham Joshua Heschel walked together during the 1965 March on Selma, they forged a bond between blacks and Jews committed to the pursuit of racial justice and equal rights for all Americans. Today, in an age of persistent economic racism and systemic inequality, attempts to renew this bond are hampered by mutual recrimination: Jews are being asked to check their unacknowledged "white privilege;" blacks are being asked to check their unacknowledged "anti-Semitism." Is there room for "Jews of color?"
Our panelists, civil rights icon Andrew Young, feminist theologian and scholar Susannah Heschel and diversity educator Yavilah McCoy, will address the past and present of black-Jewish relations, the intersections of black and Jewish identities and the realities of racism in the United States today.
Moderator: Sonari Glinton, contributor, "Fresh Air". Panelists: Andrew Young, Civil rights leader, former U.S. Ambassador to the U.N. and the 55th mayor of Atlanta; Yavilah McCoy,
Founder of the Ayecha Resource Organization and the current CEO of DIMENSIONS Inc; Dr. Susannah Heschel, Chair of the Jewish studies program and the Eli Black Professor of Jewish Studies at Dartmouth College.
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Copyright 2019 Trustees of Boston University. Permission to copy without fee all or part of this material is granted provided that the terms of the attached Creative Commons license are followed. Specifically: 1. Attribution is made to Boston University Howard Thurman Center for Common Ground, and notice is given that copying is by permission of Boston University Trustees; 2. The copies are not made or distributed for direct commercial advantage; 3. Any derivative works are distributed with the same Creative Commons license. To copy otherwise, or to republish, requires a fee and / or special permission; email open-help@bu.edu with inquiries.