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Program looks at bridging racial divide in politics, Feb. 3
Posted January 27, 2005; 06:35 p.m.
The University's James Madison Program in American Ideals and Institutions
will present a program on "Bridging the Racial Divide: Evangelical
Christians in Contemporary Politics" on Thursday, Feb. 3, as part of
the University’s observance of Black History Month.
The program includes a panel discussion with religious leaders at 3
p.m., followed by a keynote address at 5 p.m. titled "Racial Harmony or
Racial Unrest? America's Future" by Carol Swain, professor of political
science and of law at Vanderbilt University. Both sessions will take
place in Taplin Auditorium, Fine Hall.
Discussants for the panel discussion will be: Eugene Rivers, pastor of
the Azusa Christian Community, a Pentecostal church in Dorchester,
Mass., and co-chair of the National Ten Point Leadership Foundation;
and L.H. Hardwick Jr., senior pastor of the 3,500-member Christ Church
in Nashville and former moderator of the Global Network of Christian
Ministries. Marvin Olasky, a professor of journalism at the University
of Texas-Austin and a James Madison Visiting Fellow at Princeton, will
serve as moderator.
Swain, also a Madison Visiting Fellow, is the founding director of the
Veritas Institute, which attempts to increase communication among
people of different social classes, races, faith traditions,
ethnicities and nations. She is the author of the 1994 award-winning
book "Black Faces, Black Interests: The Representation of African
Americans in Congress." More recently, she has written "The New White
Nationalism in America: Its Challenge to Integration" (2002).