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2024
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...
Weekly Reflection: Breaking the Cycle of Violence and Hatred
During this Holy Week, Christians in this country and around the world commemorate the suffering,...
Weekly Reflection: An Infamous Anniversary
100 years ago this week, Virginia passed an infamous piece of legislation called “The Racial...
Weekly Reflection: The Double Struggle
During Women’s History Month, we celebrate the contributions of women who engaged in the struggle...
2023
Weekly Reflection: The Choice Between Bull and Jackie
For baseball fans, October brings the excitement of the Major League playoffs culminating in the...
Weekly Reflection: How Long Does It Hurt?
The old black and white pictures from the Civil Rights Movement of the 1950’s and 1960’s seem like...
Weekly Reflection: “The Uncomfortable Lessons Often Teach Us the Most”
Last week many people around our nation paused to commemorate the 60th anniversary of the bombing...
Weekly Reflection: “We All Did It”
This week on September 15 is the 60th anniversary of one of the most horrific events of the modern...
Weekly Reflection: Martin Luther King, Jr. and Economic Justice
Monday of this week was Labor Day. For most people in our society, this holiday has come to mean...
Weekly Reflection: King’s Dream – Recommitting or Retreating?
On Monday of this week, the nation observed the 60th anniversary of the March on Washington for...
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