Bridging The Rivers Of Difference From Dr Catherine Meeks Talks That Connect Us

Arroe Collins Like It's Live · Oct 5, 2026 · 20m · transcript

At a moment when so much of the political conversation is about what divides Americans, Meeks believes we need to get much better at talking about what connects us. That means creating conversations that can cross racial, political, geographic and cultural lines and getting beyond labels long enough to talk about what people actually care about: their families, their communities, safety, opportunity, dignity, faith, education and the kind of country they want their children to inherit. Meeks has spent decades doing this work. She led African American Studies at Mercer University for 25 years…