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Moving Beyond the Confederate Flag – As South Carolina continued debate this week over whether to fly the Confederate flag at the State Capitol, many African-Americans are urging the nation to also examine deeper issues such as systemic injustice and ongoing racism. Host Bob Abernethy and Managing Editor Kim Lawton talk with Harold Dean Trulear, associate professor of Applied Theology and director of the Doctor of Ministry program at Howard University School of Divinity.
Interracial Diversity in a Black Church – At First Corinthian Baptist Church in Harlem, a historically African-American congregation, there’s a small but growing number of white members. One of them is even on the church staff, in charge of community outreach. The white members told David Tereshchuk they feel at home – not as visitors but as fellow-worshippers, as one said, “tuning in to God.”
American Eye Surgeons in Vietnam – A “flying eye hospital” has taken American surgeons to 92 countries, among them Vietnam, where they heal and teach others to heal, too. Fred de Sam Lazaro reports from the airfield at Hue, once a battlefield in the Vietnam War. One American surgeon told him, “Every life matters, and every life matters equally.”
