by corneliuscorps | Feb 20, 2025 | 2025, Weekly Reflection
Sixty five years ago this month, four freshmen at North Carolina A&T sat-in at the Woolworth’s Lunch Counter in Greensboro, NC. The young Black men had purchased items in the store and wanted to be served at the racially segregated lunch counter. After being...
by corneliuscorps | Feb 6, 2025 | 2025, Weekly Reflection
February is Black History Month. It started in February 1926, 99 years ago this month, when Dr. Carter G. Woodson launched Negro History Week. He chose the week in February that includes the birthdays of Abraham Lincoln and Frederick Douglass. His purpose was to make...
by corneliuscorps | Jan 30, 2025 | 2025, Weekly Reflection
It happened again. Dr. King’s most famous speech, commonly known as “I Have a Dream,” was co-opted in a way that distorted the original meaning and purpose of that iconic piece. At the recent Presidential inauguration, a pastor gave a rousing prayer...
by corneliuscorps | Jan 23, 2025 | 2025, Weekly Reflection
These have been days of dissonance highlighted by the Martin Luther King, Jr. Holiday and the Presidential Inauguration falling on the same day. The holiday honors a man and a movment that engaged in a nonviolent struggle for racial justice with the goal of forming a...
by corneliuscorps | Jan 16, 2025 | 2025, Weekly Reflection
Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.’s 96th birthday was on January 15, and the national holiday in his honor will be on Monday, January 20. In a recent editorial in The Washington Post, Pulitzer Prize winning author and King biographer Jonathan Eig noted that the federal...
