Bart Worden, Leader and Executive Director of the American Ethical Union, will examine some ways we can ethically enhance our connections with others - and especially with people whose outlook differs greatly from one's own.  "We live, so we often hear, in a highly connected age. Wherever we go, so go our tethers to the […]

Ameer Shakil Ahmed of the Islamic Association of Cary will speak about the new challenges facing Muslim Americans in the Trump Era.   Ameer (a term for a Muslim lay leader) Ahmed will address specific challenges facing Muslim Americans.   The rise in hostility toward Muslim Americans  was tragically marked in Chapel Hill in 2015 when 3 Muslim […]

The National Rifle Association (NRA) has been highly successful in promoting gun rights, and fighting any attempt to regulate them.  However, did you know that there was also a national association for African American gun owners (NAAGA)?   The NAAGA's mission is "to introduce firearm use for home protection, competitive shooting, and outdoor recreational activities.  We […]

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 […]