About

Vision

RSP aims to inspire anti-racist, pro-community activism that leads to racial solidarity.

Mission

RSP seeks to achieve anti-racist, pro-community activism and racial solidarity through our four pillars of sustainable activism: justice and equity advocacy, education, wellness, and intentional community-building.

What We Do

We facilitate virtual and in-person workshops, training, and mentoring cohorts throughout the year to prepare individuals and organizations to move beyond just “having the conversation” about racial injustice, but to engage in solutions and structural changes, respectively. We provide a space of dialogue where we tap into each person’s wisdom, experience and passion to be change agents through sustainable activism in their respective spheres of influence. Our mentoring cohorts, especially, are intimate, safe spaces for learning and engaging, challenging, and authentic.

Why Racial Solidarity?

Justice work requires solidarity. Solidarity invites healing. We use the term “solidarity” because it is most reflective of God’s work and is the central witness of God’s relationship with humanity. It is an ethic grounded in covenant, which is observed by the solidaric acts of the incarnation and the work of Jesus on the cross. This makes solidarity a gospel-informed ethic.

Reconciliation is always the fruit of solidarity, but solidarity is always the witness of true reconciliation. Solidarity, by definition, means “communion of interests and responsibilities; mutual responsibilities; complete.” Reconciliation, as it is used to today in many spaces, can simply mean to “get along” or “be friendly,” but it does not necessarily require the work of activism to address social injustice and inequities.

It is through this paradigm that we at RSP view the work that needs to be done to continue the labor of those who have come and gone before us. It is also through racial solidarity that we model for the next generations what it means to resist all forms of racism and offer an alternative trajectory of the “beloved community” for our society.