Ian Mance of the Southern Coalition for Social Justice, is a Staff Attorney with the Southern Coalition’s criminal justice reform team. His efforts working with community organizers in Durham helped lead to a formal finding of “racial bias and racial profiling” by the Durham Police Department and a series of policy reforms aimed at deterring abusive stop-and-search practices.

Gabriel Treves of the Durham Branch of the  Latino Community Credit Union will share with EHST the mission and work of the credit union.  The Credit Union was founded in 2000 as a grassroots response to a wave of robberies and muggings of Latino immigrants in Durham, North Carolina. Since then, it has become a national […]

EHST's parent organization, the American Ethical Union, held its General Assembly in Baltimore on June 9-11.  The theme of it was racial justice and transformation.    Hugh Taft-Morales gave a talk during the Sunday platform program which addressed the theme of the Assembly.  You may read it here. Dorothy Dale, EHST President, and Jan Broughton […]

The Washington Post recently wrote about a Muslim doctor in Dawson, Minnesota.  The article is a good case study of the relations between a Muslim doctor who had settled down in a small town to practice medicine, and how everything changed once Donald Trump was elected president.  We will discuss the article  in small groups. […]

Our country seems to be spiraling towards new levels of polarization, and increased violence between the warring factions.  Non-violent communication is perhaps just what we need now.  It is not new, but perhaps it is time to re-examine what it is, and how it can help us.  Neal Caidin is co-leader of  local non-violent communication […]