About Dominique DuBois Gilliard
Dominique DuBois Gilliard is the director of racial righteousness and reconciliation for the Love Mercy Do Justice (LMDJ) initiative of the Evangelical Covenant Church (ECC). He serves on the boards of directors for the Christian Community Development Association and Evangelicals for Justice. In 2015, he was selected as one of the ECC’s “40 Under 40” leaders to watch, and the Huffington Post named him one of the “Black Christian Leaders Changing the World.” Follow him on Twitter @DDGilliard
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Mass incarceration is and always has been inextricably connected to race and class. Poor people, people of color, and particularly poor people of color have served as cannon fodder for an exploitative system since before the abolition of slavery. In the late 1700s the incarceration of black people began to rise in the North while … Continue reading We Incarcerate Black Women for Trying to Survive in America →
