by James Melson | Mar 22, 2023 | 2023, Weekly Reflection
Continuing our focus on Women’s History Month, we lift up the witness of Joan Trumpauer Mulholland. As a young woman, Joan Trumpauer participated in many of the campaigns of the Civil Rights Movement. The first photo posted above is her mug shot for participating in...
by James Melson | Mar 14, 2023 | 2023, Weekly Reflection
The Weekly Reflections this month honor women leaders in the Civil Rights Movement. Diane Nash was a native of Chicago who experienced the Jim Crow system of racial segregation when she attended Fisk University in Nashville, TN. She became a regular participant in...
by James Melson | Mar 9, 2023 | 2023, Weekly Reflection
March is Women’s History Month. The Weekly Reflections this month will focus on several women who made major contributions to the modern Civil Rights Movement. This is especially important because their names are not as familiar to many people as the major male...
by James Melson | Mar 2, 2023 | 2023, Weekly Reflection
What happens to Black History now? That question needs to be addressed at two levels. On the first level it refers to the fact that Black History Month is over now that we have moved from February to March. Especially for too many white people, this means that the...
by James Melson | Feb 23, 2023 | 2023, Weekly Reflection
During Black History Month, we lift up the advances in the struggle for racial justice and accomplishments of Black people in our nation’s history. Yet we risk minimizing these advances and accomplishments if we do not also lift up the forms of unjust and often...
