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“In the same way that we fought for the right to vote in ’64 and ’65, now we’ve got to stand up for clean energy, clean air, and clean water”
International Civil Rights Walk of Fame inductee
Rev. Gerald Durley
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Kentucky Interfaith Power and Light’s Greening West Louisville program is hosting an important event this October at the Kentucky Center for African American Heritage exploring the connections between race, faith and climate change. Our theme is "Race, Faith and Climate Change: How Global Warming is a Civil Rights Issue". The date is Thursday, October 25th at 6:30 pm. Click here for reservations.
Our program will join the NAACP’s Climate Justice Initiative in acknowledging that global warming is “one of the most important civil rights issues of our time” and affirm the call to “right the injustices that are visited upon us through the water we drink, the land on which we live, and the very air we breathe” (injustices that are being disproportionately borne by the African-American community).
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Our featured speaker is the award-winning educator Rev. Gerald Durley (Senior Pastor, Providence Missionary Baptist Church of Atlanta, GA). Rev Durley works closely with the national Interfaith Power and Light movement and has been engaged in the issues of our times for more than 50 years.
Join us as he shares his story. Learn about his unique journey from civil rights activist to becoming a prominent voice on behalf of creating a faith-based response to the climate crisis.
Hear about his “conversion” experience and how he came to believe that “ . . . in the same way that we fought for the right to vote in ’64 and ’65, now we’ve got to stand up for clean energy, clean air, and clean water”.
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Click here to make your reservations!
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Click here to make
your reservations!
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This event is hosted at the Kentucky Center for African American Heritage.
Located at 1701 West Muhammad Ali Boulevard Louisville, KY 40203
(At the intersection of 18th St. and Muhammad Ali Blvd.) |
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