Aug 7, 2020 | ¡Presente!, Community
CHARLES RYAN ARMOUR: I grew up pretty sheltered just outside of Atlanta. I really didn’t know much about the civil rights movement until I got older. My mom is from Madison, Georgia, which is an hour away from Atlanta and my father was from Buckhead, which about 15...
Jul 28, 2020 | ¡Presente!, Community
LILIANE KSHENSKY BAXTER, PH.D. (LILI BAXTER): I remember first meeting John back in 1979. I had just started working at the King Center for Nonviolent Social Change in Atlanta, and he was with the Voter Education Project. I was called to a neighborhood-planning unit...
Feb 24, 2019 | Black Lives Matter, Community, FORusa Feature, FORusa Publications, Racial, Reparations
“If you stick a knife nine inches into my back and pull it out three inches, that is not progress. Even if you pull it all the way out, that is not progress. Progress is healing the wound, and America hasn’t even begun to pull out the knife.” –El Hajj Malik El Shabazz...
Nov 8, 2018 | Black Lives Matter, Community, FORusa Feature
In the early fall of 2016, recent Guilford College graduate JuJu Holton signed up for a Facebook event organized by some friends in downtown Greensboro, North Carolina. The gathering, advertised as “Reading While Black,” was organized in response to the recent killing...
