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Porch Talk for a Beloved Community social-justice event with speaker Connie Schultz
Pulitzer Prize-winning columnist and New York Times bestselling novelist Connie Schultz will be the speaker for this year’s installment in the Porch Talks for a Beloved Community social-justice series in Shaker Heights.
The event will take place at 5:30 p.m. on Saturday, August 24, at East View United Church of Christ, 17300 Van Aken Blvd., the site where the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. spoke from a porch to a large crowd 59 years ago.
The Porch Talk is free and open to the public, and will be held outdoors unless inclement weather requires a move inside. Attendees are encouraged to bring a lawn chair or blanket.
Connie Schultz won a Pulitzer Prize for her Cleveland Plain Dealer columns that, in the judges’ words, “provided a voice for the underdog and the underprivileged.” A self-described liberal woman of faith, she is the author of four books, serves as Professor of Practice in Journalism at Denison University, and writes Hopefully Yours, “an ongoing conversation about the daily mess of life,” on Substack.
At the time when Dr. King spoke from the porch, the building was the home of Heights Christian Church, which in 2021 transferred the structure to East View and moved to the Herr Chapel at Plymouth Church UCC, also in Shaker Heights. All three churches are participating in this year’s Porch Talk, and inspirational music will be provided by a combined choir with members from all three sponsoring congregations.
