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Pilgrimage to Birmingham
Sat, Sep 28
|Location is TBD
Sponsored by the Commission on Racial Justice & Reconciliation Visual and Performing Arts Committee
Time & Location
Sep 28, 2024, 8:00 AM
Location is TBD
About The Event
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On September 28, 2024 the Commission will sponsor a pilgrimage to Birmingham to visit the 16th St Baptist Church, Kelley Ingram Park, the Birmingham Civil Rights Institute, and the A G Gaston Motel. Look for more info to come as well as registration links. During the pilgrimage we will discover how art, music, poetry, sculpture, architecture and use of public spaces can promote conversation about faith, racial equity and reconciliation.
Today’s example is poetry which can be used to address and explore a range of pressing social issues, and racial prejudice and racial identity are among these topics which poets have written about powerfully, from a range of perspectives. Here is just one example:
Ballad of Birmingham
BY DUDLEY RANDALL
(On the bombing of a church in Birmingham, Alabama, 1963)