April 14: Diversity Dinners planned in the south suburbs

We need time to talk.

We need time to talk to each other, not at each other. We need to share the hundreds of things in life that constantly link each to the other and we need to examine those words that always seem to keep us apart; words like race, discrimination and injustice. We need time to talk about the common and invisible threads of life that bond us together and the things that keep us apart.

For the last 18 years, the Diversity Dinners project in the south suburbs has been a starting point for some of these conversations…Please click here to read Jerry Shnay’s story in the Tribune/Daily Southtown. For more information, visit www.diversitydinners.com or contact Committee Member Hildy Kingma at  the Village of Park Forest, 350 Victory Drive, Park Forest, IL 60466, hkingma@vopf.com, 708-283-5622.