Waddie Welcome and the Beloved Community
February 25, 2025 4:00 – 5:30 p.m. EST
Join authors, Susan Earl and Tom Kohler, and allies across the world, in a telling of the Waddie Welcome story – and thus revisit the who, what, when, where and how, of building the beloved community.
Tom Kohler
Tom Kohler is a born and stayed Savannahian, having lived here for 71 of his 73 years. Tom served as longtime Coordinator of Chatham Savannah Citizen Advocacy, where he invited hundreds of people who live on “thick ice” into a variety of voluntary personal relationships with people who live on “thin ice.” Tom has been active in a variety of civic organizations including Leadership Savannah, The Jim Collins Bar Alumni Association, Emergent Savannah, and Savannah Rocks. He and co-author Susan Earl have noticed, photographed, and exhibited local African-American advertising art for several decades.
Susan Earl
Born in New York City, Susan Earl is a Savannahian by choice. She is a past or present member of 20/20 New York Women Photographers, the Ossabaw Island Project, The Storytellers, The Renegade Readers Book Club, and Wednesday Writers. She is the author of four novels and at work on a fifth.
Beloved vs Bullies
Join authors, Susan Earl and Tom Kohler, as well as several allies across the world, as we revisit the who, what, when, where and how, of building the beloved community.
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Feeling a little lost on the journey toward a more just and welcoming way of life? Feeling like the bullies are getting bigger and badder? One hundred and one years after his birth, and 20 years after publication, Waddie Welcome and the Beloved Community continues to offer a vision of, and roadmap toward, the creation of a ‘beloved community’… ‘a place where the barriers between people gradually come down and where the citizens make a constant effort to address even the most difficult problems of ordinary people. Above all else it is an idealistic community”.
Sponsored by the Marsha Foresst Centre and Inclusion Press
