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daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (F. AuYeung)
Tue Mar 28 16:33:08 2000
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Date: Tue, 28 Mar 2000 16:32:58 -0500
From: "F. AuYeung" <auyeung@MIT.EDU>
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Date: Thu, 16 Mar 2000 12:20:13 -0500
From: Cambridge Forum <camforum@tiac.net>
Subject: The Reverend Eugene Rivers Comes to Cambridge Forum
Press Release
Rev. Rivers Talks on Politics of Fatherhood at Cambridge Forum March 30
Ex-gang member The Rev. Eugene F. Rivers, 3rd, a Pentecostal minister and
co-founder of the Boston TenPoint Coalition, speaks on "The 'F---Word':
On the Politics of Fatherhood" Thursday, March 30 at 7:30 p.m. at Cambridge
Forum, First Parish, 3 Church Street, Harvard Square, Cambridge.
Reverend Rivers, pastor of the Azusa Christian Community and also at the
Ella J. Baker House in Dorchester, seeks to provide a substitute family
for young people who almost never have two parents and may not even have
one. His reconcilation center and parish house serve some 1300 young
people a year.
As co-chair of the National TenPoint Leadership Foundation, Reverend
Rivers is currently cultivating new grassroots church leadership in 40 of
the most violent inner city neighborhoods in the country by the year 2006,
replicating his Boston faith-community, law enforcement partnership
success. He is also working with the World Council of Churches Program to
Overcome Violence to adapt the U.S. violence prevention model to local
conditions in various cities internationally.
Educated at Harvard, Reverend Rivers is a contributing editor to
Sojourners magazine and a frequent contributor to a variety of national
periodicals. He is also the author of the two forthcoming collection 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.
After the speaker's initial presentation, the audience participates in
discussion of the topic. Events are taped and the audiotapes, prepared for
public radio broadcast throughout the nation, are available to the public
by contacting 617-495-2727. #####
Note: This Forum is on Thursday, March 30.
Cambridge Forum
3 Church Street
Cambridge, MA 02138
Phone/fax: 617-495-2727
email: director@cambridgeforum.org
website: www.cambridgeforum.org
"Bringing People together to talk again . . ."
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