EMBRACING RACE 101
If you are new to EMBRACING RACE, we encourage you to join a 30-minute virtual meeting for new folks to engage in a review of our prioractivities, events and book discussions. The 101 group also gives people the chance to get to know current members before joining a larger group discussion. 101 is typically held on the last Wednesday of the month at 6:30pm. To register for the next 101 meeting, email embracing.race.conversation@gmail.com for the Zoom link.
Our Mission Statement
How Our Conversation Began...
How Our Conversation Began...
EMBRACING RACE – The Conversation seeks to gather people of diverse backgrounds, faiths, and life experiences to engage in authentic dialogue about racism – to acknowledge and confront it, and then move in faith toward dismantling it, building a more loving community.
How Our Conversation Began...
How Our Conversation Began...
How Our Conversation Began...
In 2018, EMBRACING RACE - The Conversation was founded by Collingswood, NJ residents
Mary Anne Degenhart, Tony DeSantis (both from Sacred Heart Church in Camden, NJ), Brent
Miller (Pastor of First Baptist Church of Collingswood) and Lorraine Harris (then Pastor of St.
Paul’s Evangelical Lutheran Church in Collingswood). The group has close t
In 2018, EMBRACING RACE - The Conversation was founded by Collingswood, NJ residents
Mary Anne Degenhart, Tony DeSantis (both from Sacred Heart Church in Camden, NJ), Brent
Miller (Pastor of First Baptist Church of Collingswood) and Lorraine Harris (then Pastor of St.
Paul’s Evangelical Lutheran Church in Collingswood). The group has close to 300 people on its
email roles and there are regularly 30 or more participants in the monthly meetings (virtual since
April 2020), which include reports from action teams and community partnerships, book and
film discussions and reports on upcoming relevant events. Currently, EMBRACING RACE’s
diverse core leadership team includes Mary Anne Degenhart, Tony DeSantis, Brent Miller, Bill
Johnson, Myna Barbee and Ingrid French.
And Why...
How Our Conversation Began...
And Why...
The group’s leaders have created a safe space to share – a community of compassion and
acceptance – as people of all ages, backgrounds and experience come to the discussion. We
strive to be diligent in the practice of anti-racism. We seek to build a collective power that can
stand up to systems of oppression and prepare for a future wherein
The group’s leaders have created a safe space to share – a community of compassion and
acceptance – as people of all ages, backgrounds and experience come to the discussion. We
strive to be diligent in the practice of anti-racism. We seek to build a collective power that can
stand up to systems of oppression and prepare for a future wherein everyone has an opportunity
to thrive. All are welcome to join, share and learn
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Drew Hart, author of Trouble I’ve Seen -- -- Changing the Way the Church
Views Racism, at First Baptist Church of Collingswood, NJ, March, 2019,
addressing a crowd of over 200 people. Photo: (l-r) Bill Johnson, Mary
Anne Degenhart, Pastor Brent Miller, Rev. Lorraine Harris
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