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March 6, 2024 | 7:00 pm - 9:00 pm
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Our nation continues to combat racial inequality in 2024, 60 years after the passage of the landmark 1964 Civil Rights Act. Saint Mark’s Episcopal Church in Palo Alto invites the wider community to an upcoming speaker series, “Community, Faith and Racial Justice,” that explores the role of Christianity, including the current white Christian Nationalist movement, and seeks to define a path toward justice, healing, and reconciliation.
The speaker series begins Wednesday, March 6 at 7 PM with a talk by Stanford Professor and Martin Luther King, Jr. scholar Dr. Lerone A. Martin.
Professor Martin will speak on Martin Luther King, Jr.’s beliefs about the threats to democracy from racism, materialism, and militarism. He relates these to the government’s involvement in the white Christian Nationalist movement, themes from his most recent book, The Gospel of J. Edgar Hoover: How the FBI Aided and Abetted the Rise of White Christian Nationalism.