There are a lot of ways Rita Tucker Williams could define herself. Tellingly, she chose to kick off today’s conversation defining herself as “someone who thinks that her life belongs to the community.” 

Professionally, Rita is an attorney and CEO and CFO of the Law Firm of Williams & Associates, PC, based in downtown Decatur, Georgia. Rita graduated cum laude from Spelman College with a BA. She additionally holds an MA from University of Michigan, and a Juris Doctorate from Emory University School of Law. Attorney Williams was Selected as One of the Top Lawyers in America in 2019, by the world renown biographers, Marquis Who’s Who. She recently earned a Lifetime Achievement Award for her Contribution to Society and was featured in the Wall Street Journal on November 27, 2019, for this honor.    

Rita is on a mission of creating a world of grace, justice, and power for all people.

In today’s stimulating conversation, Dr. Fred and Rita discuss:

• Why Rita says her life belongs to the community
• The legacy and influence of the late US Representative John Lewis
• Reflection on Lewis’ statement that we are one people from one family living in the same house
• The value of viewing ourselves as Planetary Human Beings
• How we are all related...and related to everything
• Why Rita believes the phrase Black Lives Matter actually includes everyone
• Rita’s banner: One Race, the Human Race. No subtitles, please.
• The effects of colonialism and how it gave birth to racial classification
• What Mitochondrial Eve has to say about all of us
• Bonus: Rita shares a spoken word selection from Rumi’s “A Great Wagon”

 

Episode Length: 0:55:31

 

CONTACT RITA > 

rtwilliams at williamsandassoc dot com

 

Also Mentioned On this Episode >

Read the full text of Rumi’s ‘A Great Wagon’ > https://onbeing.org/poetry/a-great-wagon/

American Association of Physical Anthropologist's (AAPA) Statement on Race and Racism (source for the statement that humans share 99.9% of our DNA in common) > https://physanth.org/about/position-statements/aapa-statement-race-and-racism-2019/

 

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