HOPE IN THE CITIES
 
   The Richmond Unity Walk Through History (Photo: Rob Lancaster)

Hope in the Cities is building trust through honest conversations on race, reconciliation and responsibility. Its goal is the creation of just and inclusive communities.

Hope in the Cities is an interracial, multi-faith network providing a framework to connect communities across traditional barriers. Its model of honest conversation incorporates three vital steps: dialogue with people of all backgrounds and viewpoints; personal responsibility and change as a foundation for institutional transformation; and Intentional acts of reconciliation.

We invite you to learn more about Hope in the Cities story,  programs and how you can get involved. We also provide training to support those working for change in their communities.

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New Hope in the Cities Council Looks At Poverty

Thirty Richmond community leaders have formed a new Hope in the Cities Council to provide a space for networking, sharing of concerns and insights, and exploration of opportunities for honest conversation on critical issues.
Saturday, June 19, 2010
Gandhi Voyage of Dialogue and Discovery in Washington

The Voyage of Dialogue and Discovery rolled into Washington, DC, June 7, on the heels of a number of public events in support of Trustbuilding, a recent book release from IofC National Director, Rob Corcoran. The themes of the book and the tour dovetailed well as Rajmohan and Usha Gandhi spoke throughout the week about building trust through honest conversation, personal conviction and trustworthiness.
Friday, June 18, 2010
From Tragedy to Triumph: Tulsa's Road to Reconciliation

Nearly ninety years after what has been described as the worst act of domestic terrorism in US history, Tulsa, OK, is starting to come to terms with its painful racial past and to “turn tragedy into a triumph of reconciliation.”

 
Sunday, June 13, 2010

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Race & Reconciliation: Tulsa, Oklahoma, Leads By Example

“One might argue the historian is the conscience of the nation, if honesty and consistency are factors that nurture the conscience.” Dr. John Hope Franklin (Race and History, Selected Essays, 1938 – 1988)

In life, Tulsa’s hometown hero, Dr. John Hope Franklin, challenged us to identify that which is broken in the world, and then set about fixing it.
Monday, June 14, 2010
Hannibal Johnson
The Open Wounds of the Culture Wars

The US is groaning with the pain of the “culture wars”—the battles of politics and religion that have raged between liberal and conservative, Christian and secular, "red" and "blue" since at least the 1960s, if not the 1860s. Both sides have suffered and felt oppressed by the other, and both have in their turn oppressed and caused suffering.
Thursday, April 8, 2010
Zeke Reich