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2024
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...
Weekly Reflection: History that Hurts and Heals
As we enter the month of March, it is easy for most people to relegate Black history to the back...
Weekly Reflection: A Challenge From the Founder of Black History Month
Today is Leap Day, and February has 29 days as it does every four years. So Black History Month is...
Weekly Reflection: Look for the Local History
For the Weekly Reflections during African American History Month, we continue our focus on people...
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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