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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‘Trustbuilding: an honest conversation on race, reconciliation, and responsibility’: public workshop in Caux

‘The most-needed reforms in our communities and nations require levels of political courage and trust-based collaboration that can only be achieved by individuals who have the vision, integrity, and persistence to call out the best in others and sustain deep and long-term efforts,’ said Rob Corcoran. He was speaking on Saturday afternoon at the Caux conference centre in Switzerland, launching his new book on Trustbuilding.
Sunday, August 8, 2010
A Close Associate of Martin Luther King Speaks at the Caux Forum for Human Security

It is not too late to seek a better world, and all of us have a responsibility to commit ourselves to the task during our lifetime. This was the central message in the keynote address of Otis Moss at the plenary session of 12 July on just governance, one of the themes of the Caux Forum on Human Security.
Monday, July 12, 2010
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

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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