Last night Dr. M. Rick Turner, President of the Albemarle-Charlottesville chapter of the NAACP, spoke to a group of about 3 dozen people who had come to hear his thoughts about the most serious issues facing Charlottesville’s African American community, the Black Lives Matter movement, and the best way white allies can really be of help in the ongoing struggle for racial justice. The impetus for the event was an invitation from our Racial Justice Steering Committee (which holds its regular meeting on the 3rd Sunday evening of each month). There were people from our congregation, of course, as well as folks from the NAACP (including their Board’s Secretary and Vice President), and people from the wider community. (NBC 29 was also there, and this is how they covered it.)