HOPE IN THE CITIES
 

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

Hope in the Cities offers Richmond, Virginia, as a Center for Community Trustbuilding. The experiential learning offered is a national resource to increase the capacity of community leaders to acknowledge and heal the wounds of racial history and their legacy, and to sustain community initatives for racial reconsiliation and racial eqity.

Hope in the Cities provides consultation and training for community leaders in cities across the U.S. and Canada as well as Europe, Australia, South Africa, Brazil and India.

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.

NEWSARCHIVE>>
Hope in the Cities awarded Kellogg grant

“Race, freedom, and justice” is the theme of a new project launched by Hope in the Cities in collaboration with the Black History Museum and Cultural Center of Virginia, the state NAACP, and other partners, including school-age students. It will explore aspects of the Civil War with emphasis on slavery, emancipation, racial equity, and healing.
Thursday, January 12, 2012
A call to action mobilizes Richmonders

This month Hope in the Cities and the Virginia Center for Inclusive Communities launched a region-wide project aimed at provoking discussion about new policy options to address poverty and structural inequity in metropolitan Richmond. Forty people took part in a weekend training as presentators of “Unpacking the 2010 Census: The New Realities of Race, Class and Jurisdiction."
Tuesday, January 10, 2012
Building a healthy democracy requires healing history's wounds

Distinguished historians of the Civil War and its aftermath spoke on “Healing the Wounds of History: North-South, Black-White” at a special forum in Washington, DC, on December 12. “We want to explore how the wounds of history are playing into the political polarization,” said former diplomat Joseph Montville, the moderator, noting that “resentment is very much alive in Congress today.”
Tuesday, December 20, 2011

COMMENT ARCHIVE>>
The Slave Trade and the wounds of history

The last year has been a pivotal year for democracy, says Dr Omnia Marzouk, President of Initiatives of Change International. To move forward means also to look honestly at the past and the wounds of history.

 
Monday, January 30, 2012
Omnia Marzouk
Truth-telling and redeeming a City

Ben Campbell wastes no time in naming hard truths in his new book, Richmond’s Unhealed History. It opens in 1607 with Captain Christopher Newport and his men arriving at the fall line of what is now the James River. They "planted the seed of a great nation with unprecedented opportunity for all human beings; they also planted seeds of economic exploitation, racial discrimination, a hierarchical class system, and a heretical version of Christianity….”
Thursday, January 5, 2012
Rob Corcoran