Taking to the Streets for Darfur | RD Blog: The Devil's Advocate

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Jonathan L. Walton is assistant professor of Religious Studies at the University of California, Riverside. He teaches courses in African American Religion; Religion, Media & Culture and Religion & Political Discourse. His new book is: Watch This! The Ethics and Aesthetics of Black Religious Broadcasting (New York University Press).

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Taking to the Streets for Darfur

By Jonathan L. Walton
June 10, 2009

A two-thousand person march in Southern California is now underway, sponsored by Jewish World Watch.

Image courtesy the Jewish World Watch website.

Over 2,000 persons began the week marching through the streets of Southern California’s San Fernando Valley in order to raise money and awareness concerning genocide in the Sudan. “Walk for Darfur” is organized each year by the Jewish World Watch. The crowd was comprised primarily of members from about 60 area synagogues, yet was led by about a dozen Sudanese from Arizona.

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