Leadership for a Just World

The mission of the Samuel DeWitt Proctor Conference, Inc. (SDPC) is to nurture, sustain, and mobilize the African American faith community in collaboration with civic, corporate, and philanthropic leaders to address critical needs of human rights and social justice within local, national, and global communities. SDPC seeks to strengthen the individual and collective capacity of thought leaders and activists in the church, academy, and community through education, advocacy, and activism.

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2023 Year In Review

We were blessed to gather together LIVE in 2023, and SDPC has been faithful to its mission to nurture, sustain, and mobilize the African American faith community. Here is a glimpse of the work done in 2023 as we gathered in Chicago to refresh ourselves for the work ahead in 2024.

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BEYOND REPARATORY JUSTICE: REPENTANCE, REPAIR AND RECONCILIATION

What is Project 2025

Project 2025 is a blueprint for erasing the democratic government as we know it and replacing it with an authoritarian government where the executive branch has full control.

“Zacchaeus Tax” panel brings faith-based lens to tax justice, gender justice

Dr. Iva Carruthers participated in a panel discussion that explored the intersections between tax justice and gender justice—and why this is a matter of faith.