Past: Community Conversations

A series of 10 "community conversations" focusing on overcoming racism and oppression will be held in Cape Girardeau. The series is designed to help whites "identify how we cause and contribute to oppression and harm for nonwhite people," Renita Green, pastor of St. James AME Church and one of the organizers, said. Each discussion will focus on a different theme and guest "experts" will be brought in for various sessions.

The schedule of sessions is as follows:

Sept. 5, "Back the Blue/Blue Lives Matter: What's the Issue?"

Sept. 12, "Symbols and Signs in Media"

Sept. 19, "Profiling: I'm not a terrorist, I just play one on TV"

Sept. 26, "Diverse Organizations or Why there is no white history month?"

Oct. 3, "The School to Prison Pipeline"

Oct. 10, "Equality vs. Equity"

Oct. 17, "More than Pink and Blue: Beyond the Gender Binary"

Oct. 24, "What does it mean to be an American?"

Oct. 31, "It's a Culture, Not a Costume"

Nov. 7, "I Don't See Color"