Black Women for Positive Change, a national policy-focused network, believes America can overcome its violent culture and is working to help bring about peace.
At press time, the organization was scheduled to announce the “National Week of Non-Violence,” scheduled for August 16-23. Organizers labeled the event a citizen’s response to ongoing tragedies of school shootings, street and domestic violence and random violent acts by domestic terrorists.
“We’re very concerned that we have to move beyond the violence that our nation was born into,” said Dr. Stephanie Meyers, national co-chair. From the genocide of Native Americans to the enslavement of African people, violence is in the country’s foundation, she said.
But now it’s time for Americans and people everywhere to find new ways to relate to each other, and manage conflicts and disagreements, without resorting to violence, Dr. Meyers continued.