Forging a common bond.

This article reports that harking back to the days of the Freedom Riders, who traveled to the South in order to end racism, a group of Black and Jewish teenagers from Saint Louis are crisscrossing the country in an effort to retrace the Civil Rights Movement. Cultural Leadership, a youth leadership development group that was started to promote mutual understanding and respect between African-Americans and Jews, aims to eliminate discrimination by fostering high-school age youth through its year-long program that takes the students on a historic tour of the U.S.