Dr. Carl Ellis, Jr. explains how neither racism nor personal responsibility by themselves can explain the current racial tension in American. We must address the "culture of dysfunctionality".

Jemar Tisby directs us to a seven-part series entitled, "Race and the American Church", by Otis Pickett that surveys the U.S. church's interplay with racial dynamics.

Parks had a particular concern for black women who had been victims of sexual violence.