Ferguson: An Unnecessary Repetition

I have heard persons say that we have seen this before, that we have heard these police accounts and witness statements before, that we have heard the President, politicians and news personalities make these same arguments before. Again.  It is a troubling word when used in sentences involving the untimely death of a teenager.  An […]

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Ferguson: The Healing Process

I have heard throughout this ordeal involving the death of Mr. Michael Brown and resultant protests, looting and rioting of the “old wounds” that have been reopened.  Apparently, “race relations” in the city have been bad for decades and Mr. Brown’s death is the straw that broke the community’s back.  His dead body lying on the street […]

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Our Problems with Diversity

It’s amazing the transformation that the United States of America has undergone in such a short span of time.  Once an outwardly segregationist empire, capitalism has changed the way that we do business.  There are inter-cultural services being offered and businesses owned by persons of various cultural backgrounds share the same block and sometimes building […]

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Stephen R. Haynes: Memphis ‘kneel-ins’ tested churches

The 1960s campaign to integrate churches needs to be remembered and re-examined says the author of “The Last Segregated Hour: The Memphis Kneel-Ins and the Campaign for Southern Church Desegregation.”  Stephen R. Haynes shares with readers another facet of the civil rights movement on Duke Divinity School’s  Faith & Leadership blog.

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A National Apology to the Indigenous People of the U.S. again?

The U.S. government officially apologized to the indigenous people of what is now the United States of America on December 19, 2009 but it was not publicized.  As a result, there will be a public reading of the apology on December 19, 2012 in front of the U.S. Capitol in Washington, D.C.  For more information […]

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