The Absalom Jones Episcopal Center for Racial Healing’s Board Chair, The Rt. Rev. Matt Heyd, and Executive Director, Dr. Catherine Meeks discuss this attempt to change American History.
Discovering Atlanta’s Lost African American Communities
A new documentary video about lost African American communities, created with support from The Absalom Jones Episcopal Center for Racial Healing, documents the effect of displacement upon African Americans in Atlanta.
‘Closer Look’ Listeners Discuss Racial Healing
In the first Feedback Friday episode of Closer Look in 2023, host Rose Scott talks with Dr. Catherine Meeks, Executive Director of the Absalom Jones Center for Racial Healing.
Why Hope?
In celebration of and thanksgiving for the life and ministry of The Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., I thought I would try and distill a couple of reasons he gave for us to stay steadfastly hopeful.
Presidential Award Ceremony Honors Founder of the Absalom Jones Episcopal Center for Racial Healing
ATLANTA - Dr. Catherine Meeks, founding executive director of the Absalom Jones Episcopal Center for Racial Healing, on August 26, received The President Joseph R. Biden Lifetime Achievement Award and the Presidential Volunteer Service Award medal during a ceremony at the Martin Luther King, Jr. Chapel on the campus of Morehouse College. Dr. Meeks was also recognized for being a frequent media guest commentator on racial healing, editor of Living into God’s Dream: Dismantling Racism in America, and co-author of Passionate for Justice: Ida B. Wells as a Prophet of our Times. Following the...


