“I’m particularly concerned when I see white people and African-American people not having conversations with one another about what’s happening in Ferguson,” says Russell Moore, president of the Ethics and Religious Liberty Commission of the Southern Baptist Convention. “I think that needs to change in our own congregational life, when we have congregations where reconciliation is modeled within the pews of the church.” More →

August 22, 2014

  KIM LAWTON, anchor: A tense national debate about racial profiling has continued since Harvard scholar Henry Louis Gates, Jr., was arrested in his Cambridge home for disorderly conduct. Gates, who is African-American, was arrested by Sergeant James Crowley, a … More →

July 31, 2009

Read more of Lucky Severson’s interview about interracial churches with Michael Emerson, Allyn R. and Gladys M. Cline Professor of Sociology and director of the Center on Race, Religion, and Urban Life at Rice University and the author of PEOPLE … More →

July 31, 2009

BOB ABERNETHY, anchor: We have a story today about a woman who is both African American and an Orthodox Jew, a rare but real combination in this country. Her very name expresses her mixed identity — Yavilah McCoy — and … More →

January 26, 2007