Honoring and Renewing Dr. King’s Other, More Challenging, Dream — 55 Years Later
Fifty-four years ago—on April 4, 1968—Martin Luther King, Jr. was assassinated in Memphis. Exactly one…
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Must We Burn Something to Get Attention?: 50 Years After the Catonsville Nine
Fifty years ago today, the Catonsville Nine burned draft files at the local draft board…
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What We Cannot Do is Be Revolutionaries Except When We’re Mothering
“Children are the ways that the world begins again and again.” – June Jordan,…
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Why Real Political Power Will Not Come From a Revived Religious Left
It is the poor and dispossessed as a class whose ethics and struggle must be centered if we are going to have a real moral revival — not the ethics of the “religious left” or of progressive Democrats.
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Civil Rights and Soul: Memphis 2010
Sometimes you get to meet history; and sometimes you even get to shake his hand.
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