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33. Kendrick Glover: An Advocate, Pt.1

Grantley Martelly — Sun, 27 Mar 2022 03:31:07 +0000

Kendrick Glover is the founder of Glover Empowerment Mentoring (GEM) based in Kent, WA. Kendrick was born in Natchez, Mississippi and after some wandering years moved to Seattle to get away from further trouble. In Seattle, he found his calling to teach young people to find their path to their full potential. At GEM he is doing just that. With strong faith and determination, he and his team are making a big difference in the lives of hundreds of young people of color every year.
This two-part episode is challenging and inspiring and you will find it one that you will come back to and share with others trying to navigate where they fit and how they can make a difference.

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16: Town Hall #2 -Faith, Race, Education

Grantley Martelly — Thu, 28 Jan 2021 04:45:20 +0000

This is the second in the series: Are We Not One? Conversations on faith, race, and reconciliation. The impacts of the coronavirus pandemic helped to expose some of the disparities that people of color and black people still face in this part of the twenty-first century. Disparities in education persist: access; affordability; college preparedness; vocational training; low expectations; inadequate pay for teachers; poorly equipped schools, school to prison pipeline, and the list goes on.
Hillside Church in Kent, WA hosts these town halls to create opportunities for dialogue and free discussion in the hopes that we become better equipped to have these difficult conversations and to activate us all to become a part of the solution to the complex problems facing us in our modern, yet to be an equal society.

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11: Police Chief Rafael Padilla

Grantley Martelly — Wed, 21 Oct 2020 03:58:26 +0000

Chief Rafael Padilla is the police chief of Kent, WA, the 10th most diverse city in the United States. We discuss his journey of faith and the challenges of leading a police department in the present climate of racial unrest and calls for reforms in modern policing. He discusses his efforts to establish accountability, credibility, and performance standards in his department in a city where diversity of ethnicity, faith, language, customs, and cultures are present at every turn.

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8: Are We Not One – A Town Hall in the City of Kent, WA -Part 1

Grantley Martelly — Mon, 21 Sep 2020 04:16:50 +0000

Are We Not One?-Conversations on Racial Reconciliation was a Town Hall held for the City of Kent, WA on September 19, 2020. The town hall was hosted by, and held at Hillside Church Kent and included Mayor Dana Ralph, Police Chief Padilla, and Councilmember Brenda Fincher as well as leaders in the faith community, Native American, and the non-profit community such as Hillside Church, Christ the King Bible Fellowship, Glover Empowerment Mentoring, World Relief Seattle and the Sto:Lo nation.

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9: Are We Not One? – A Town Hall in the City of Kent, WA, Part 2

Grantley Martelly — Mon, 21 Sep 2020 04:10:18 +0000

Are We Not One?-Conversations on Racial Reconciliation was a Town Hall held for the City of Kent, WA on September 19, 2020. The town hall was hosted by, and held at Hillside Church Kent and included Mayor Dana Ralph, Police Chief Padilla, and Councilmember Brenda Fincher as well as leaders in the faith community, native American, and the non-profit community such as Hillside Church, Christ the King Bible Fellowship, Glover Empowerment Mentoring, World Relief Seattle and the Sto:Lo nation.

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