Fortune: How Race Broke My Family and the World—and How to Repair It Allby Lisa Sharon Harper
Coming February 8, 2022
Drawing on her lifelong journey to know her family’s history, leading Christian activist Lisa Sharon Harper recovers the beauty of her heritage, exposes the brokenness that race has wrought in America, and casts a vision for collective repair.
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Throughout Black History Month 2022, Lisa Sharon Harper invites you to pilgrimage through the story of her family—which is the story of race in America—from the colonial era through Inauguration Day 2021. Understand the impact of racial hierarchy on one family, the role of the church in establishing this hierarchy, and the faith implications of Brown, colonized Jesus. Join Lisa and a diverse community of thought leaders as they consider how to stop simply talking about race and finally repair what it broke in the world. Add your voice to the chorus that will rise in the final week of #BlackFortuneMonth, as readers call on Congress to move forward on truth-telling and reparations.
Lisa Sharon Harper (LSMA, Columbia University; MFA, University of Southern California) is the founder of Freedom Road, a consulting group dedicated to shrinking the narrative gap. A sought-after speaker, trainer, and consultant with more than 100,000 social media followers, Harper has written several books, including the critically acclaimed The Very Good Gospel: How Everything Wrong Can Be Made Right. Her work has been featured in the New Yorker, Relevant, Essence, HuffPost, the National Civic Review, andCNN, and she has appeared on PBS’s Religion & Ethics NewsWeekly, TV One,Fox News, NPR, and Al Jazeera America. Harper previously served as chief church engagement officer at Sojourners, where she mobilized the church to engage campaigns on immigration reform and racial justice. She has researched her family’s origins for three decades and presented on her ancestors’ achievements at the African American Civil War Museum. Harper lives in the same Philadelphia neighborhood where three generations of her ancestors lived.
