Faith, Race, and (Non)Violence | Andra Gillespie, Na’ilah Suad Nasir, Claudia May

The Veritas Forum · Jul 25, 2017 · 1h 23m

In 2015, during the fallout of Ferguson, three Black women took the stage at UC Berkley to discuss faith, race and non-violence. Andra Gillespie, associate professor of political science at Emory, Na’ilah Suad Nasir, professor in the graduate school of education at UC Berkley, and Claudia May, who, at the time of this Forum, was a Visiting Scholar in the Department of African American Studies and African Diaspora Studies at UC Berkley.

The opening line from our moderator, Claudia May— “Injustice finds no solace in denial”— served as both a framework for this…