Remembering David Weaver, Jr.
Our beloved, long-term board member, David A. Weaver, Jr., passed away on Thursday, June 18, 2020. David joined our board in 2003. “Dave’s dedication to the mission and work of the Center for Leadership and
Freedom School Goes Virtual!
CLJ’s Adventures in the City (AIC) Freedom School has gone VIRTUAL! After four years of providing a dynamic in-person multi-cultural literacy curriculum to scholars in grades k-3 (and 39 years of providing a summer program),
GHIAA Update from Executive Director
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Freedom School Goes Virtual!
CLJ’s Adventures in the City (AIC) Freedom School has gone VIRTUAL! After four years of providing a dynamic in-person multi-cultural literacy curriculum to scholars in grades k-3 (and 39 years of providing a summer program), COVID-19 has forced AIC Freedom school to go online. Tieasha Gayle, Program Director, and her team of five new student […]
Justice In Time of Pandemic
On June 12, 2020, clergy from the Greater Hartford Interfaith Action Alliance (GHIAA) marched 1.5 miles from Hartford’s North End neighborhood down to City Hall, with a stop at the Hartford Police Department, chanting “No justice, no peace. No racist police!” The goal? To push for subpoena power for Hartford’s Civilian Police Review Board (CPRB) […]
Remembering David Weaver, Jr.
Our beloved, long-term board member, David A. Weaver, Jr., passed away on Thursday, June 18, 2020. David joined our board in 2003. “Dave’s dedication to the mission and work of the Center for Leadership and Justice (formerly Christian Activities Council) will be sorely missed,” said Tyrone Walker, Board President. “His generous spirit, compassion to those […]
The solution to racial injustice must include gun violence prevention
A woman holds a Black Lives Matter sign so passengers on a city bus can see it during a protest demanding the defunding of police in front of Hartford City Hall. We are in the midst of a historic opportunity to begin the process of eradicating the systemic, institutionalized racism and injustice that has afflicted […]
‘A very broad power base’: CT faith leaders in the Black Lives Matter movement
Pastor Anthony L. Bennett is lead pastor at Mount Aery Baptist Church in Bridgeport. Credit: Cloe Poisson / CTMirror.org Clergy members from around the state march down Main Street in Hartford in an event organized by the Greater Hartford Interfaith Action Alliance (GHIAA) to demand police accountability and transparency in response to the recent death of George […]
Clergy members take the streets to march for justice
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GHIAA’s Inaugural Delegates Assembly
On Tuesday, February 4, 2020, leaders from our GHIAA congregations filed into the sanctuary at Union Baptist Church in Hartford’s North End to hold the first Delegates Assembly of the Greater Hartford Interfaith Action Alliance (GHIAA). Minister Ronald Campbell of Urban Hope Refuge set the tone for the night by leading those gathered in a […]