The world is turned upside down. The contents of our lives dumped out on the floor. We try to pick up where we started off from but more than three months in hiding from the Coronavirus, we don’t know where to begin. What did we use to do again? All home now, we are all coming home now […]
No statements. We didn’t ask for you to tell us what we already saw on cellphone videos and know for ourselves. We’ve seen this before. The violation of the rights of African Americans is not new and neither is their murder; it’s been done before and with each generation. Instead, let us know when you […]
I have been protesting for days now and the violence only increases. Yesterday, Trump ordered peaceful protesters to be gassed and trampled over. I know that they were peaceful because I had been among them earlier that day. When persons wanted to negatively engage police officers, we quickly and unequivocally corrected them. I know because […]
“Why is it that Christianity seems impotent to deal radically, and therefore effectively, with the issues of discrimination and injustice on the basis of race, religion and national origin?” | Howard Thurman, Jesus and the Disinherited “The white man’s foot is on my neck.” I heard this expression as a child. It was used to […]
“I’m sorry. I’m in the Ramble and there is a man, African American. He has a bicycle helmet; he is recording me and threatening me and my dog. … There is an African American man. I am in Central Park. He is recording me and threatening myself and my dog. … I’m sorry. I can’t […]