Feb 2, 2021 | Beloved Community, Black Lives Matter, Civil Rights, Community, General, Nonviolence, North America, Peacebuilding, Prayer, Social Justice
FOR-USA’s executive director, Rev. Dr. Emma Jordan-Simpson, was asked to offer up a prayer and reflections on the morning of Jan. 20, 2021 (U.S. Inauguration Day for President Joseph Biden and Vice President Kamala Harris) to an international online gathering....
Jan 18, 2021 | Black Lives Matter, Civil Rights, Community, MLK, North America, Peacebuilding, Racial, Reparations, Social Justice, Uncategorized
We celebrate Martin Luther King, Jr. Day this year at a time when our nation has come to a fork in the road and the fate of our democracy depends on the path we take. Just 12 days removed from the insurrectionists’ attack on the Capitol that left six dead and two...
Jan 7, 2021 | Civil Rights, Community, General, News, North America, Peacebuilding, Prayer, Press Releases, Uncategorized
Embed from Getty Images Lies have consequences. The insurrection that was attempted as the U.S. Senate and House of Representatives gathered to certify the election results on January 6, 2021 was incited by the President’s lies. The violence that ensued as they...
Dec 24, 2020 | Advocacy, Black Lives Matter, Civil Rights, Community, General, Racial, Social Justice
Embed from Getty Images Max Hess, former Interim Executive Director of FOR-USA, is an Atlanta-based attorney who has been involved in peace and justice causes for decades. In the Q&A that follows, he recounts his experience trying and failing to vote via absentee...
Nov 22, 2020 | Civil Rights, Community, Demilitarization, FORusa Feature, FORusa Staff, News, Peacebuilding, Racial, Reparations
FOR USA’s executive director, Rev. Dr. Emma Jordan-Simpson, delivered the 31st Annual Salem Peace Lecture was held online on Thursday November 19th. Dr. Jordan-Simpson’s topic was “Unfinished Democracy: Making Good Trouble for Racial Equity.”...
Nov 11, 2020 | Beloved Community, Black Lives Matter, Civil Rights, Community, Human Rights
this song of praise and every voice never lifted say we can begin here, on scorched earth with the hollow bark of a barberry-leaved oak, where we sheltered as we mourned over 200,000 of our own. We go forward for the sake of the dream, this land, this sanctuary, for...
