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Equal Justice Initiative (EJI)

Description

This organization sheds light on America's legacy of slavery, racial violence, and mass incarceration. Through its museum and outreach programs, visitors learn about inequalities and reparative actions to address contemporary injustices.

Features

The Legacy Museum, multi-media educational resources ; National Memorial for Peace and Justice; restorative truth-telling project; advocacy to improve the incarceration system

Recommended Audience

anyone seeking to acknowledge America's past, speak racial truth, and support racial justic

Cost

Varies per service

Practical Applications

  • Start to heal from America's harmful racial legacy by going to the museum or interacting with the multi-media website.
  • Advocate for racial justice by following EJI's activism to address mass incarceration.

About the Contributor

Contributor
Tim Shapiro

Tim Shapiro is the Indianapolis Center’s president. He began serving the Center in 2003 after 18 years in pastoral ministry. For 14 years, Tim served Westminster Presbyterian Church in Xenia, Ohio. Prior to his pastorate at Westminster, he was pastor of Bethlehem Presbyterian Church in Logansport, Indiana. He holds degrees from Purdue University and Louisville Presbyterian Theological Seminary.

Tim’s interest in how congregations learn to do new things is represented in his book How Your Congregation LearnsAfter his extensive work on the Center’s Sacred Space initiative, Tim co-authored the book Holy Places: Matching Sacred Space with Mission and MessageHe has also authored several articles, including Applying Positive Deviance and The Congregation of Theological Coherence.

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