AJC Live - Faith Leaders Affirming Racial Equality by Scott Richman

This episode of AJC Live focused on the recent event held at the Mount Hope AME Zion Church in White Plains, which affirmed racial dignity and equality and memorialized the victims of the massacre at the AME Church in Charleston, South Carolina. The event was put together by a coalition of 12 organizations, representing the Christian, Muslim and Jewish communities of Westchester and Fairfield Counties in New York. Five leaders from the planning committee for that event were featured on this show. They spoke powerfully about the program, its impact and the next steps. The leaders were Father Stephen Holton of the Episcopal Church; Reverend Doris Dalton of the Methodist Church and also the Director of the Westchester Martin Luther King Institute for Non-Violence; Imam Abdul Azeez from the Masjid Yusuf Shah mosque in Mount Vernon; Cliff Wolf, Chair of AJC Westchester/Fairfield’s Interreligious and Intergroup Relations Committee; and Reverend Gregory Smith, Pastor of the Mount Hope AME Zion Church in White Plains. The show was hosted by AJC Westchester/Fairfield Director Scott Richman. It aired live on WVOX 1460 AM on Wednesday, July 8, 2015 from 11 a.m. to 12 p.m. and was streamed live at www.wvox.com.