Curating the Chaos

Curating the Chaos

by Peggy Hahn, LEAD Executive Director One unexpected part of quarantine / re-entry life is the bombardment of online opportunities coming our way. Pain and grief…creativity and innovation. Our Facebook feeds are an ocean of experts sharing their resources in...
I am a witness.

I am a witness.

by Peggy Hahn, LEAD Executive Director   Even if you are TIRED… Be a witness. Say it out loud. White leaders, this is for us. Don’t opt out. Don’t say you are too weary. Now is the time for us to push through our COVID-19 grief and Listen to the uprising. Hear...
Lord Have Mercy – If We Say We are Not Racist

Lord Have Mercy – If We Say We are Not Racist

by Reverend Ashley Elisabeth Bathe Dellagiacoma, Restart Pastor at +Kindred, Houston, TX If we say we are not racist, we deceive ourselves and the truth is not in us. But…if we confess our sin, God who is faithful and just will release us from its death-dealing...
Lord Have Mercy – The Breath of God #Icantbreathe

Lord Have Mercy – The Breath of God #Icantbreathe

by Rozella Haydée White, LEAD Consultant I wrote this for The Salt Collective after the death of Eric Garner and the subsequent acquittal of the man who killed him. I wrote this on December 3, 2014. It is May 28, 2020, and these words still ring true. “There is no...
Staying Quiet When I Should Have Spoken Up

Staying Quiet When I Should Have Spoken Up

by Peggy Hahn, LEAD Executive Director I am confessing that as a white person, I have kept my mouth shut too many times to count, when white people around me, even in my own family, have made racist comments. My silence is hurting my non-white friends. That is not the...