2004 Kuyper Lecture

Lecture: Who Is Going to Raise the Village? Taking Responsibility for the Education of African American Youth (PDF, 16 pages) by Rev. Dr. Harold Dean Trulear, Howard University

Response by Judith A. W. Thomas, Lincoln University (PDF, 23 pages)

The context

2004 was the 50th anniversary of Brown v. Board of Education, the 1954 U.S. Supreme Court decision striking down racially segregated schools. Dr. Trulear and two respondents used the occasion of the anniversary to illumine the landscape of education and race in America today. Where are we today, and where should we be going in the quest for racial and educational justice? The 2004 Kuyper Lecture took place in Washington, D.C., on October 21, 2004.

The lecturer

Rev. Dr. Harold Dean Trulear is the senior pastor of Mount Pleasant Baptist Church in Twin Oaks, Pa., and associate professor of applied theology at Howard University School of Divinity in Washington, D.C. A frequent conference speaker, Dr. Trulear has also served as a consultant to foundations on urban development and faith-based social services. He is a Fellow of the Center for Public Justice and author of The African-American Church and Welfare Reform: Toward a New Prophetic Perspective.

Panelists

Judith A. W. Thomas is dean of the School of Social Sciences and Behavioral Studies at Lincoln University in Pennsylvania.

Jerry S. Herbert is director of the American Studies Program of the Council for Christian Colleges & Universities in Washington, D.C.