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April 18, 2000
Talk on Faith and Violent Crime
WHO: Ex-gang member and community activist Rev. Eugene F. Rivers III
WHAT: Lecture on "The Role of the Faith Factor in Violent Crime Reduction." The lecture is free and open to the public.
WHEN: Tuesday, April 25 at 4:30 p.m.
WHERE: Dodds Auditorium in Robertson Hall, in the Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs
The Rev. Eugene F. Rivers III is the author of the TenPoint Plan for a National Church Mobilization to Combat Black-on-Black Violence and a co-founder of the Boston TenPoint Coalition. Raised in South Chicago and Northwest Philadelphia, he is working to cultivate grassroots church leadership in 40 of the most violent inner-city neighborhoods in the country by the year 2006.Rivers, who was educated at Harvard University, is a contributing editor to Sojourners magazine and a frequent contributor to a variety of national periodicals. He is also the author of two forthcoming collections of essays entitled On the Responsibility of Intellectuals in the Age of Crack and Beyond the Nationalism of Fools: A Manifesto for a New Black Movement. Rivers is pastor of the Azusa Christian Community in Four Corners, an inner-city section of Boston.
His talk is co-sponsored by the Woodrow Wilson School and the Center for the Study of Religion.