A Brave Space with Dr. Meeks
A Brave Space with Dr. Meeks will support the work of the Absalom Jones Center for Racial Healing in its mission of creating brave space where the truth can be told. The sessions will explore various topics that address the intersections between slavery, lynching, the prison industrial complex, the death penalty and 21st-century police killings and the ways in which these issues prohibit racial healing in America. There will be a wide variety of guests who will assist the host and Absalom Jones CenterDirector in engaging the crucial topic of racial healing from their wide range of experiences as resistors to racism and in seeking racial healing.
A Brave Space with Dr. Meeks
Pilot Episode
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Dr. Catherine Meeks
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Season 1
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Episode 1
Welcome to a Brave Space with Dr. Meeks. In the pilot episode, listeners are introduced to Chelsi Glascoe, the host of A Brave Space with Dr. Meeks, and Dr. Catherine Meeks, Executive Director of the Absalom Jones Center for Racial Healing.
Chelsi and Dr. Meeks have a conversation about the founding of the Center, the significance of its place in the Episcopal Church. After introductions, Chelsi and Dr. Meeks discuss the importance of remembering the 400th anniversary of slavery in the United States.