Video of powerful memorial service for Brother Hollis Watkins Muhammad, one of the earliest SNCC activists in Mississippi who became a lifelong human rights organizer, teacher, mentor and community leader. The program, hosted by Tougaloo College, includ...
Continue ReadingThis is an essay I wrote around this time last year. President Obama was trying to get a health care reform package passed and the resistance emerging from some quarters of the country was vituperative and crazy. Ruby Sales and I were having periodic ...
Continue ReadingThis article appears in the February 2012 issue of Sojourners magazine Southwest Georgia is where Lee, Terrell, Dougherty, Schley, and Sumter counties rub up against each other in the Flint River basin, and where creeks with names like Kinchafoonee and Mu...
Continue ReadingJoin us for a day honoring the legacy of Dr. Vincent G. Harding through music, art, food and conversation. Sponsored by the Iliff School of Theology in Denver, Colorado. We will be commemorating Vincent Harding’s life and work on the ninth anniv...
Continue ReadingListen to reflections from Samuel Waymon, Nina Simone’s brother — about the powerful, beautiful, extraordinary song “Why? The King of Love is Dead” that Nina wrote within a day of Martin Luther King Jr’s assassination in 1968...
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