Racial Justice

Forget VBS. These Summer Camps Teach Kids to Be Community Activists

By Jesse James DeConto
Franklin Golden / RNS
Children sing at the community-organizing camp in Durham, N.C. Photo via Franklin Golden / RNS
Jul 5, 2016
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Instead of the traditional vacation Bible school, this downtown church partnered with seven other congregations — black, white, Baptist, Jewish, Episcopal, Pentecostal, and nondenominational — to put on a community-organizing camp for kids aged 4 to 12.

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Children sing at the community-organizing camp in Durham, N.C. Photo via Franklin Golden / RNS