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2024
Celebrating Juneteenth
This week our nation observed Juneteenth!! It was June 19, 1865, two and a half years after the...
Remembering Medgar Evers
June is a very significant month in the history of African Americans' long struggle for freedom....
Weekly Reflection: June – A Wedding Month For All
Traditionally June is known as a month for weddings. Yet for much of our nation's history, this...
Weekly Reflection: Memorial Day DNB
This week our nation observed Memorial Day, a time to remember those who lost their lives in our...
Weekly Reflection: The Power of Kinship in Divisive Times
During these times characterized by daily reports of division, fear, and hatred, I came across a...
Weekly Reflection: Brown at 70 – Celebrate and Lament
This week marks the 70th anniversary of the landmark Brown v. Board Supreme Court decision that...
Weekly Reflection: Terrorism on Mother’s Day
This Sunday is Mother's Day. It is a time to honor and remember the nurturing love of our...
Weekly Reflection: The Right to Protest for Right
The protests about the Israel-Gaza war on college campuses around the country continue to be a...
Compromising Freedom
Sometimes lesser known parts of our nation's history have major impacts on the legacy of racial...
Weekly Reflection: From Condemned Convict to City Council
Thirty five years ago on April 19, 1989, a woman was brutally beaten and raped in New York City's...
Weekly Reflection: Before Martin There Was Marian
The Lincoln Memorial in Washington, DC was the site of one of the best known events in the...
Weekly Reflection: Pleas for Peace Then and Now
Fifty seven years ago this week on April 4, 1967 Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. delivered the...
2023
Weekly Reflection: How Dr. King Honored Veterans
Our nation recently celebrated Veteran’s Day that honors those who served in various branches of...
Weekly Reflection: Voices of Pain and Peace
This week marked one month since the Hamas terrorist attacks in which around 1400 Israelis were...
Weekly Reflection: The Call for Ceasefire – Over There and Here
Even as the horrific violence escalates in the Israel-Hamas war, voices around the world are...
Weekly Reflection: “There Is Actually Love”
Ever since the horrific terrorist attacks by Hamas against Israel on October 7, the stories of...
Weekly Reflection: The Horror and The Hope
For almost two weeks, news about violence and death in Israel-Palestine has dominated daily media...
Weekly Reflection: Holding On To Humanity
I was supposed to be in Israel-Palestine this week. Two days before our group was scheduled to...
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