Black Pastors Help Win the Fight to Abolish the Death Penalty in Virginia “This monumental victory to abolish the death penalty in Virginia is a significant step in acknowledging the racist legacy of capital...
By Dora Muhammad, Congregation Engagement Director, Health Equity Program Manager More than 100 people participated in our Day of All People listening session held Jan. 21st with immigrant leaders of LA RED (Liberation, Action,...
By Dora Muhammad, Congregation Engagement Director, Health Equity Program Manager, Virginia Interfaith Center for Public Policy — In several days, Christians will culminate the holy observance of Advent in celebration of the birth of...
By Alexis Smith, a nurse at the Kaiser Permanente satellite emergency room in Tysons Corner, Va. I don’t know how I got COVID. The first patient I swabbed for the coronavirus was in March,...
By Dora Muhammad, VICPP Congregation Engagement Director — We vote our values. We don’t sideline them. We live out our faith in the public square. We don’t get it confused. We harness our power...
Building the Beloved Community in a Wounded World A Virtual Symposium sponsored by the James River Chapter of the Virginia Interfaith Center for Public Policy October 7, 2020, 9:00 am – 2:00 pm Registration:...
By Max Hall, August 26, 2020 — Last Saturday morning, I arrived at the Courthouse in Warrenton, Virginia. It was the tenth week in a row for our local Black Lives Matter Vigil. The...
By Dora Muhammad, VICPP Congregation Engagement Director — Medicaid turns 55 tomorrow (July 30, 2020). For more than half a century, this federal program has improved the health of millions by providing affordable health care...
By Holly Melvin Rodriguez — Our dear, fierce and compassionate warrior of justice, Congressman John Lewis, has retired from this life, his body at rest while his spirit takes a rightful place among the...
By Scott Christian, Chair of the Northern Piedmont Chapter of the Virginia Interfaith Center for Public Policy — At 10 am on Saturday, July 11, sixty-five people participated in the fourth Vigil for Action: Black Lives...
Essay and artwork by Salem Schreiber Hansen, age 15. — George Floyd was a father and a citizen intent on bettering himself. He was another person, and another life, and lost it in a...
By Dr. Corey D. B. Walker – “In order for us as poor and oppressed people to become part of a society that is meaningful, the system under which we now exist has to...
By Terry O’Connor, a nurse at Novant Health UVA, Prince William Hospital and Health Care Hope Ambassador — I was called for a time such as this. This is what I signed up for. ...
By Lauren O’Neil, Communications Intern, Virginia Interfaith Center for Public Policy, (photo: Lauren and other UVA students canvassing to Get Out the Vote) — The night before the recent November elections, I was so excited...
Are you looking for meaningful volunteer/intern work over the summer? We have opportunities for college interns and volunteers from across the state in our new Civic Engagement Summer Program. You will work with us...
By, Doris Crouse-Mays, President, Virginia AFL-CIO –It is time to address the safety of workers in Virginia who are putting their lives on the line during this pandemic. Frontline workers and those providing other essential services are facing unsafe conditions day...
VICPP is grateful for all the good work the Governor and his team are doing, but we remain concerned that not enough protection is being provided to Virginia's essential workers. As we talk about...
By Dora Muhammad, Congregation Engagement Director — Photo: My mother at a 1984 union protest in front of Mt. Sinai Hospital in New York — In early April when the Centers for Disease Control...
By Julia Gravely — “Tell me how people treat nature, and I’ll tell you what they think about what it means to be human.”- Rev. Dr. Faith Harris — Across the globe, the COVID-19...
By Kim Bobo, Executive Director, VICPP — It all started with one grocery store. Doris Crouse-Mays, President of the Virginia AFL-CIO, emailed VICPP about grocery store workers in Mechanicsville who needed masks. We reached...