Dr. David
Anderson

During November, an important event was held in Tirana. “Bridging the Balkans Executive Summit”, organized by Elona Prroj, was an exclusive event, where leaders gathered from across the Western Balkans. A transformative dialogue and specialized sessions focused on bridging deep cultural, generational, economic, and political divides.

On November 16th, the Western Balkans Leadership Summit took place in Tirana, a special forum organized by Gracism Global and GenHope. This event served as a platform to bring together prominent figures from Albania, Kosovo, and Montenegro. The summit gathered well-known names from politics, business, and civil society, uniting them with the purpose of advancing dialogue and offering ideas to bridge cultural, racial, economic, and political divides in the Balkans.

Affirmative action, a policy crucial in rectifying injustices and promoting equal opportunities for marginalized individuals, has been set back decades. With the its 6-3 decision to diminish the consideration of race and ethnicity in college admissions, the Supreme Court has undermined our strides in fostering a fairer and more inclusive nation.

While on a television program several years ago, I recounted a story about moving with my family into a new home in the suburbs of Washington. As a black family, we were welcomed to the neighborhood with a shocking sight. My mother and I looked out the kitchen window the morning after we moved in to notice that someone had driven across our new lawn, skidding over mom’s cute dogwood tree, and placed a cross there to intimidate us.

COLUMBIA, MD. — It was Sunday morning, and the vast parking lots of Bridgeway Community Church sat empty.

If it is true that all lives matter, then let's prove it by demonstrating our care for the lives that have mattered the least in America...Black Lives.

Congratulating gay people is not a sin. Following the Supreme Court's decision in a landmark same-sex marriage case, I released a statement on Facebook, on a radio show, and appeared on Poppy Harlow's CNN show on June 27, 2015. Subsequently there has been some controversy around my statement.

Who knew when we entered the modern day South Africa last week that there would be such a roar? As my team and I sat just 50 feet from a female lion positioned behind a tree near the watering hole lying in wait for the herd of Zebra who were looking for a drink, we looked on silently in uncomfortable amazement at the Royal Madikwe safari hoping we weren't going to be suddenly attacked ourselves.

We all know what it's like to be so frustrated that we are tempted to damage something or someone we hold dear. That could be punching a wall, throwing a dish or cell phone, or sadly enough, assaulting a loved one. None of these responses are justified or right. Hence, we need a remedy.

You may ask yourself, “Where’s the hope”? The news is full of people who are dead set on tearing each other apart, and all too often, so are our communities, churches and even families. Society tells us we must pick a side. Sometimes we just feel lost.

While immigration remains a divisive topic in America, differing views on politics and policies should not distract Christians from their calling to love others. This is especially true at a time when immigration is on the rise—a recent report shows that the number of immigrants in America’s biggest counties grew drastically between 2021 and 2022.

(RNS) — On June 19, 1865, the news finally reached 250,000 enslaved Black Americans in Texas that their freedom had become a reality, more than two long years after the Emancipation Proclamation had legally ended slavery in the United States. Texans have celebrated the day, which became known as Juneteenth, for more than 150 years — long before it became recognized as a national holiday in 2021. It’s a shame that it took so long, because the day has a lot to teach Americans.

For more than one-and-a-half centuries, the Juneteenth holiday has been sacred to many Black communities. It marks the day in 1865 enslaved people in Galveston, Texas found out they had been freed — after the end of the Civil war, and two years after President Abraham Lincoln’s Emancipation Proclamation.