Posts Tagged ‘ccda’
The Empowerment Experiment
Did you EE today?
That’s what Maggie and John Anderson want to know. The Andersons, an African American couple living in a Chicago suburb, started The Empowerment Experiment (or EE) in January 2009.
When they ask their signature question (did you EE today), they are asking if you bought from a black-owned business. Their reasoning? To defy [...]
And the Jordan Award Goes to …
… Dr. John M. Perkins, founder of Christian Community Development Association, CCDA. Dr. Perkins has been extremely instrumental in my reconciler’s journey. I first met him in the mid 90s during a series of intimate racial reconciliation gatherings organized by Reggie Edwards of Building Together Ministries (Raleigh, NC, USA).
Dr. Perkins struck me as a powerful [...]
