Suzanne Flierl Krull, the co-founder and executive director of the Cuba Cultural Center, reflects on the NYS Truth Commission’s Neighborhood Check-In. This is the first of four NYS Truth Commissions to be held this year across the state as a part of the New Poor People’s Campaign National Truth Commission process.
50 years ago, in his Frogmore “Staff Retreat Speech,” Martin Luther King Jr. spoke of the need to move from an era of civil rights to human rights. Read five excerpts from the speech that give insight into King’s assessment of how his work would need to develop a new political strategy for the new era.
Read a reflection from Bob Zellner on the recent People’s Trial and Revival in Grays Harbor County, WA, hosted by Chaplains on the Harbor — a part of the National Truth Commission process of the New Poor People’s Campaign.
Rev. Dr. Barber officially announced his transition to join the leadership of the New Poor People’s Campaign at a press conference held at Davie Street Presbyterian Church. The Kairos Center’s co-director, Rev. Dr. Liz Theoharis, was in attendance and spoke at the conference.
This Bible study is the fourth in a series developed to foster conversations about the biblical and theological significance of the New Poor People’s Campaign.
Learn more about the Kairos Center’s Rev. Dr. Liz Theoharis’ theological call for ending the abomination of systemic poverty, out from Eerdmans on April 21, 2017.
Essays, books, and more from Kairos Center staff, members, Fellows, and Poverty Scholars. Including: our collection of writings on religions and social movements, “The Spirit of Struggle”; Willie Baptist’s “The Pedagogy of the Poor”; and selections from our blog and more than 10 years of work, thinking, and writing.
A collection of New Poor People’s Campaign resources for study on poverty today, history, and Dr. King’s vision, created in collaboration with the national organizing tour towards a new poor people’s campaign for today. Includes concept papers about the call for a New Poor People’s Campaign, writings about key struggles of the poor today, important passages from Rev. Dr. King’s writing and speeches, and more.