“We didn’t sit back,” Darius Maynard, program associate at Community Foundation of Central Georgia, said at a recent meeting to convene the On The Table steering committee following the inaugural Oct. 17 event.

For 15 years, a now-retired Mercer University professor has lead a Macon effort promoting racial reconciliation. Called Building the Beloved Community, the work centers on a symposium at Mercer founded by John Marson Dunaway, professor emeritus of French and interdisciplinary studies.