Schedule: The Rally To End Racism On The National Mall

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April 4, 2018

The National Mall – Washington, DC

12^th Street NW

AWAKEN TO ACKNOWLEDGE RACISM AS EVIL

7:00 a.m. Awaken – Lighting the Way

Time of Reflection (National Mall 12^th Street)

AND

7:00 a.m. Drumbeat for Justice Silent Walk (MLK Memorial to the National Mall)

Gather west of the MLK Memorial at the polo fields near the MLK bookstore (West Basin Drive, SW)
Rev. Touissant King Hill, Jr., Pastor, West Hunter St. Baptist Church in Atlanta
Rev. Dionne Boissiere, Chaplain of the Church Center for the United Nations (CCUN).

8:00 a.m. Awaken – Preparing Our Hearts

Interfaith Service (12^th Street Stage at the National Mall)

RALLY TO END RACISM

AWAKEN TO ACKNOWLEDGE RACISM AS A SIN

9:00 a.m. Host: Julian Deshazier, Senior Pastor, University Church of Chicago, Emmy-award winning hip-hop artist J.Kwest

Participants:

His Eminence Archbishop Vicken Aykazian, Diocesate Legate and Ecumenical Director, The Armenian Church, Eastern Diocese of America
Rev. Barbara Carter, Apostle, Council of Twelve, Southeast USA Mission Field, Community of Christ
Rt. Rev. Francis Krebs, Presiding Bishop, Ecumenical Catholic Communion
Bishop McKinley Young, Sr. Bishop, A.M.E. Church
Rev. Dr. John C. Dorhauer, General Minister and President, United Church of Christ
Mrs. Jacquelyn Dupont-Walker, Ex-Officio Member, NCC Governing Board, African Methodist Episcopal Church
Dr. Jim Winkler, General Secretary and President, National Council of Churches
A.C.T. Now! Mass Choir
Rev. Canon Kelly Brown Douglas, Dean of the Episcopal Divinity School at Union Theological Seminary and is the Canon Theologian at the Washington National Cathedral.

Bishop Roy E, Campbell, Jr., Auxiliary Bishop, Archdiocese of Washington
Ms. Anita Bonds, Member At-Large, Council, District of Columbia

CONFESS TO CONFRONT RACISM

Confessing the Church’s Complicity in Practicing, Promoting and Profiting from White Privilege and Racial Division

10:00 a.m. Keynote Speaker: Rev. Jim Wallis, President and Founder, Sojourners & Author, America’s Original Sin: Racism, White Privilege and the Bridge to a New America

Participants:

Mr. Louie Blue Coat, Standing Rock Reservation and Member, Dakota Association UCC
Rev. Dr. Elizabeth Miller, President, Northern Province, Provincial Elders Conference (PEC), Moravian Church in North America
Bishop Clement W. Fugh; President, African Methodist Episcopal Church Council of Bishops
Mr. Azhar Azeez, President, Islamic Society of North America

Children’s Choir; Mr. Tony Small Conducting – White House Millennium and National Award-Winning Composer, Librettist, Orchestrator & Pianist, Consultant for Sacred Arts Places, Music Minister for Clifton Park Baptist Church
Rev. Dr. Barbara Williams-Skinner, National African American Clergy Network; President, Skinner Leadership Institute
Ms. Christie Duncan-Tessmer, General Secretary, Philadelphia Yearly Meeting, Religious Society of Friends
Rabbi Jonah Pesner, Director, Religious Action Center of Reform Judaism
A.C.T. Now! Mass Choir
Dr. W. Franklyn Richardson, Chairman, Conference of National Black Churches

CONFRONTING RACISM

in Education, Jobs, Health Care and Criminal Justice, Civil, Human and Voting Rights, Immigration, Media and Environmental Justice

11:00 a.m. Keynote Speaker: Rev. Dr. Jennifer Harvey, Author, Dear White Christians: For Those Still Longing for Racial Reconciliation

Inspiration/Uplift: Y’Anna Crawley, Urban Contemporary Gospel Artist and Musician

Participants:

The Rev. Dr. J. Herbert Nelson, Stated Clerk, Presbyterian Church (USA)
(Video) Rev. Dr. William J. Barber II, President, Repairers of the Breach, Founder, Forward Together Moral Movement, Chair, NAACP Legislative Political Action Committee and Co-Chair, Poor People’s Campaign
(Video) Rev. Dr. Liz Theoharis, Founder and Co-Director, Kairos Center for Religions, Rights and Social Justice; Coordinator, Poverty Initiative, Union Theological Seminary and Co-Chair, Poor People’s Campaign
Bishop Bruce Ough, President, Council of Bishops, United Methodist Church
Mary I. O’Connor, MD, Chair, Movement is Life and Director, Center for Musculorskeletal Care, Yale School of Medicine and Yale New Haven Health; Professor of Orthodpaedics and Rehabilitation, Yale School of Medicine and Chair, Diversity Advisory Board, American Academy of Orthopaedic Surgery
Ben Cohen and Jerry Greenfield, Co-Founders, Ben & Jerry’s Ice Cream
Rev. Paula Clayton Dempsey, Alliance of Baptists
Bishop George E. Battle, Jr., Senior Bishop, Presiding Prelate of the Piedmont Episcopal District, A.M.E. Zion Church
Sr. Patricia Chappell, SNDdeN – Executive Director, Pax Christi

CONFRONTING RACISM: REMEMBERING DR. KING AND RENEWING OUR COMMITMENT

12:00 Keynote Speaker: Dr. Frederick D. Haynes III, Senior Pastor, Friendship West Baptist Church (Dallas, TX)

Speaker: Mr. Louis Gossett, Jr., Founder, President and Board Chair, Eracism Foundation; Oscar Award-winning Actor
Inspiration/Uplift: Yolanda Adams, Gospel Singer, Record Producer, Actress, former Radio Host
Release Dance Company

Participants:

Rev. Teresa “Terri” Hord Owens , General Minister and President, Christian Church (Disciples of Christ) in the United States and Canada
Rev. Dr. Angelique Walker-Smith, Bread for the World, National Baptist Convention USA, Inc.,
The Most Blessed Tikhon, Archbishop of Washington, Metropolitan of All America and Canada, Orthodox Church in America
Rev. Dr. Lee B. Spitzer, General Secretary, American Baptist Churches USA
Rt. Rev. Teresa Jefferson Snorton, Presiding Prelate, Fifth Episcopal District, Christian Methodist Episcopal Church; President, Churches Uniting in Christ
Rev. Raphael G. Warnock, Senior Pastor, Ebenezer Baptist Church (Atlanta, GA)

TELL THE TRUTH TO LEAD TO TRANSFORMATION

1:00 p.m. Keynote Speaker: Mr. DeRay Mckesson: “Transforming Systems and Institutions;” Activist and Former School Administrator, This is the Movement (Baltimore, MD)

Inspiration/Uplift: Marvin Sapp, Gospel music singer-songwriter; Founder and senior pastor of Lighthouse Full Life Center Church, located in Grand Rapids, MI
Robert Miranda, singer-songwriter

Participants:

(Video) Andrew Young, Politician, Diplomat, and Activist, former Ambassador to the United Nations
Rt. Rev. Elizabeth Eaton, Presiding Bishop, Evangelical Lutheran Church in America
Mr. Phil Lee, President, Clear Impact
Dr. Naeem Baig, Co-Convener National Council of Churches Muslim-Christian Dialogue, Vice President for Public Affairs, Islamic Circle of North America
Ms. April N. Baskin, Vice President of Audacious Hospitality, Union for Reform Judaism
Bishop Lawrence Reddick, III, Senior Bishop and Presiding Prelate, Eighth Episcopal District, Christian Methodist Episcopal Church

THE CALL TO ACTION

2:00 p.m. Keynote Speaker: Rt. Rev. Vashti Murphy McKenzie, Presiding Prelate, Tenth Episcopal District, African Methodist Episcopal Church

Speaker: Danny Glover, Actor, film director, and political activist
Inspiration/Uplift: Marvin Sapp, Gospel music singer-songwriter

Participants:

Mr. Terry Provance; Vietnam Peace Commemoration Committee
Rt. Rev. Michael Curry, Presiding Bishop and Primate, The Episcopal Church
Bishop W. Darin Moore, Chair, National Council of Churches and Presiding Prelate, Mid-Atlantic Episcopal District, A.M.E. Zion Church
Inspiration/Uplift – Yolanda Adams, Marvin Sapp & The A.C.T. Now! Mass Choir: “What Hope Do We Have?”

3:00 P.M. PLEDGE TO A.C.T.

Agnes Regina Murei Abuom, Moderator of the Central Committee, World Council of Churches
Rev. Dr. John C. Dorhauer, General Minister and President, United Church of Christ
Mrs. Jacquelyn Dupont-Walker, Ex-Officio Member, NCC Governing Board, African Methodist Episcopal Church
Bishop W. Darin Moore, Chair, National Council of Churches and Presiding Prelate, Mid-Atlantic Episcopal District, A.M.E. Zion Church
Bishop Hope Morgan Ward, Resident Bishop, The United Methodist Church, North Carolina Conference

AWAKEN TO ACKNOWLEDGE. CONFESS TO CONFRONT. TELL THE TRUTH TO TRANSFORM