{"id":7095,"date":"2020-02-26T13:13:59","date_gmt":"2020-02-26T18:13:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.brethren.org\/?p=7095"},"modified":"2020-02-26T13:13:59","modified_gmt":"2020-02-26T18:13:59","slug":"the-new-jim-crow","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/blogtest\/2020\/02\/26\/the-new-jim-crow\/","title":{"rendered":"The New Jim Crow"},"content":{"rendered":"\n\t\t\t\t\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"536\" src=\"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/blogtest\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/39\/2020\/02\/looking-Back-to-live-Forward-1024x536.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-7015\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/blogtest\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/39\/2020\/02\/looking-Back-to-live-Forward-1024x536.png 1024w, https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/blogtest\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/39\/2020\/02\/looking-Back-to-live-Forward-300x157.png 300w, https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/blogtest\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/39\/2020\/02\/looking-Back-to-live-Forward-768x402.png 768w, https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/blogtest\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/39\/2020\/02\/looking-Back-to-live-Forward-560x293.png 560w, https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/blogtest\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/39\/2020\/02\/looking-Back-to-live-Forward.png 1200w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><em>This resource is part of the joint program \u201cBlack History 2020: Looking Back to Live Forward\u201d led by Rev. LaDonna Nkosi, the new Director of Intercultural Ministries and Alexandra Toms, Racial Justice Associate in the Office of Peacebuilding and Policy. We will be offering various blogs, videos, and articles throughout the month of February exploring the intersections of faith, Black history, and current day racism. We hope you join us this month to read, listen, and reflect as we look back through history, so we can better live into Christ.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Michelle Alexander, the author of &#8220;The New Jim Crow&#8221; explains in this Ted Talk how certain laws disproportionately affect people of color causing similar discrimination as was seen during the Jim Crow laws. This video gives a look into how policies that may not seem racist can perpetuate racial disparities.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed-youtube wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"The future of race in America: Michelle Alexander at TEDxColumbus\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/SQ6H-Mz6hgw?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">If you are unable to watch the video in the blog, click the following link to open the video. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=SQ6H-Mz6hgw&amp;fbclid=IwAR2RZWmeYh3jwCCmZg4M3Rl0DvdchBQ2QDNhqBkzTBuv2cEOs_aSkjow1zw\">https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=SQ6H-Mz6hgw&amp;fbclid=IwAR2RZWmeYh3jwCCmZg4M3Rl0DvdchBQ2QDNhqBkzTBuv2cEOs_aSkjow1zw<\/a><\/p>\n\t\t","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This resource is part of the joint program \u201cBlack History 2020: Looking Back to Live Forward\u201d led by Rev. 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