Weekly Reflections

Weekly Reflection: The Courageous Teachers of Selma

by corneliuscorps | March 13, 2025 | 2025, Weekly Reflection | 0 Comments

This month marks the 60th anniversary of some of the famous and momentous events in the Selma civil rights campaign of 1965. This week I want to highlight a lesser known but equally momentous event in Selma a couple of months before that helped to set the stage for...

Weekly Reflection: “Get In The Way”

by corneliuscorps | March 6, 2025 | 2025, Weekly Reflection | 0 Comments

This week on March 7 marks the 60th anniversary of one of the most famous and tragic events of the modern Civil Rights Movement. On that day in 1965 in Selma, AL, non-violent marchers were savagely beaten by Alabama State Troopers as they attempted to cross the Edmund...

Weekly Reflection: The End of Black History Month

by corneliuscorps | February 27, 2025 | 2025, Weekly Reflection | 0 Comments

"The End of Black History Month" takes on two very different meanings this year. On the one hand it is a simple fact. Friday of this week marks the end of Black History Month for 2025. Yet the need for teaching and learning Black history does not end with February....

Weekly Reflection: Listen to the Elders While We Can

by corneliuscorps | February 20, 2025 | 2025, Weekly Reflection | 0 Comments

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...