Daryl Davis: Grace, Race, and the KKK

by Mockingbird on Jan 25, 2018 • 9:20 am 3 Comments

Very excited to share this talk from our recent conference in DC, featuring the incredible blues musician Daryl Davis. Here Davis talks about how, over the course of 30 years, he made meaningful friendships with some of his greatest antagonists…members of the Ku Klux Klan. Talk about grace in practice! (Also, you won’t want to miss that boogie-woogie piano at the end!)

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Papillon says:

Jan 26, 2018

Thank you for sharing this! I hope everyone listens!

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Daryl Davis: Grace, Race, and the KKK