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Race-related issues to be the focus of
Town Hall Meetings at Divinity School

"Racial Legacies and Learning: An American Dialogue" will continue with a series of three Town Hall Meetings Tuesday-Thursday, Sept. 15-17. These conversations among university and community leaders, students and the public will be held in the Divinity School common room 11:30 a.m.-1:30 p.m. each day. The meetings are free and open to the public. Participants are encouraged to bring lunch or purchase lunch in the Divinity School refectory.

The series begins on Sept. 15 with a discussion of the relationship between race and economics moderated by Joel Limerick, a second-year Divinity School student. Panelists will include Douglas Rae, the Richard Ely Professor of Management, School of Management; Rodney Russell, vice president, New Haven Public Education Fund; and Bernard Rogan, corporate spokesperson, and Roy Tucker, regional human resource director, both of Shaw's supermarkets.

On Sept. 16 University Chaplain the Reverend Frederick (Jerry) Streets will lead a discussion on race and religion, engaging the community in a dialogue around the popular claim that Sunday morning is the most segregated hour in American life. "We should not be surprised by segregated communities of religious faith when many of our other institutions are also racially segregated," says Streets. "We need to address this as a community. We need to ask ourselves what moral and ethical views of our common life together are taught and promoted by religious communities to challenge contemporary forms of racial segregation and discrimination." Panelists will include Rabbi Sonya Starr, Mishkan Israel; Robert Leikind, regional director, Connecticut Office of the Anti-Defamation League; the Reverend Eric Smith, Community Baptist Church; Michelle Schrag of the Baha'i faith community; and Imam Abdul Hasan of the Muslim faith community.

The series of meetings concludes on Sept. 17 when Divinity School health educator Emily Shurr leads a discussion on race and health care. Joining in this conversation will be panelists Elsie Coffield, president and founder, AIDS Interfaith Network; the Reverend Carolyn Young, director of pastoral services, Connecticut Mental Health Center; Fernando Ayala, a New Haven-based substance abuse counselor; and Dr. Wilfred Reguero, director, Project MotherCare, and clinical professor of obstetrics and gynecology.

The "Racial Legacies and Learning" project is being coordinated by Divinity School student Demetrius "Pidgeon" Semien. For more information, call Semien at 501-0363.


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