by James Melson | Nov 30, 2022 | 2022, Weekly Reflection
This Thursday December 1 marks the 67th anniversary of one of the most famous events in the modern Civil Rights Movement. That day Rosa Parks was arrested for refusing to give up her seat to a white person on a Montgomery, AL city bus. This became the spark for the...
by James Melson | Nov 21, 2022 | 2022, Weekly Reflection
This Thursday is Thanksgiving, a time to reflect and give thanks for our lives individually, as families, and as Americans. Yet giving thanks does not mean ignoring the very real pains and tragedies of life. The killings at universities in Virginia and Idaho and the...
by James Melson | Nov 16, 2022 | 2022, Weekly Reflection
Three UVA Students Killed in November 13 Campus Shooting Ruby Bridges, Federal Marshalls, and Protesters – November 1960 The awful litany of school related violence continued this week as three student athletes were killed in a campus shooting at the University...
by James Melson | Nov 9, 2022 | 2022, Weekly Reflection
The National Memorial for Peace and Justice in Montgomery AL honors the victims of lynching in the US. Each pillar represents a county where lynchings occurred and lists victims by name or as unknown. Race based murder commonly known as lynching is a horrific yet real...
by James Melson | Nov 3, 2022 | 2022, Weekly Reflection
Photo from the Carlisle, PA Indian Boarding School November is American Indian Heritage Month. It is an opportunity to lift up the culture, heritage, and racist mistreatment of indigenous people. On November 1, 1879 the first Indian Boarding School opened in Carlisle,...
by James Melson | Oct 26, 2022 | 2022, Weekly Reflection
James Thompson and David Simpson – Children Arrested in the Kissing Case of 1958 This week I am enjoying several days with family in western North Carolina. As I looked over the Racial Justice Calendar for this month, I noticed a particularly disturbing story...
