Join a vital conversation on how Islamophobia & antisemitism are showing up in our communities and what people of faith can do about it. This event is hosted by the Shoulder to Shoulder Campaign: Standing with American Muslims; Advancing American Ideals and the Kaufman Interfaith Institute at Grand Valley State University. It will feature special guests Jenan Mohajir and Rebecca Russo , Muslim and Jewish colleagues at Interfaith America. The event is free and online. Click here to learn more and reserve a ticket.

As a teenager, Rev. Dr. William J. Barber II recalls seeing Black mothers interviewed on TV whenever there was a story on food stamps or unemployment. Poverty, then as now, was depicted as an essentially Black problem. In White Poverty: How Exposing Myths About Race and Class Can Reconstruct American Democracy, Rev. Barber—a Protestant minister, social activist, professor, and a leading advocate for the rights of our nation’s poor—addresses white poverty as a hugely neglected subject that might just be the key…