The purpose of this forum is for law enforcement officials community leaders, elected officials, gang leaders and their members, Eastside Neighborhood Association leaders to sit in dialogue and breakout session groups to address issue: Racial profiling, police abuse, e and police internal affairs procedures, excessive force, deadly force. The breakout session groups will report back with three (3) recommendations each for vote by the entire forum participants. The written recommendations will be presented to all parties.

The City of San Antonio MLK Jr. Commission and Trinity University host the annual MLK Jr. Commemorative Lecture. Tim Wise, anti-racist essayist, author, and educator, will be the guest speaker for the event. He will present "The Legacy of Dr. King and Today's Civil Rights Struggles." Wise’s antiracism work traces back to his days as a college activist in the 1980s, fighting for divestment from (and economic sanctions against) apartheid South Africa. After graduation, he threw himself into social justice…

The New Black is a documentary that tells the story of how African-American and AA faith based communities are grappling with the gay rights issue in light of the recent gay marriage movement and the fight over civil rights. Within this film there are insights into the current political and social landscape, it seems critical – perhaps even urgent – to have a conversation about civil rights, equality and progress in these United States. The simultaneous expansion and erosion of…