Feb 17, 2021 | Community, FORusa Feature, Youth
Rev. Michael O Harrington has spent more than four decades as a community organizer, youth advocate, educator, and chaplain/minister in diverse institutions. As founder of two national networks working in youth & young adult networks and interfaith communities,...
Feb 3, 2021 | Community, FORusa Affiliate, FORusa Feature, Peacebuilding, Racial
By Emerald “Fitz” Fitzpatrick All together now, let’s clean up the river and say hello and say how are you and mean it. Let’s open the cages open the cages all of them this time, every last one. All together now, everyone say “I’m sorry” in ways that...
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.”...
Apr 10, 2019 | FORusa Feature, Human Rights, Uncategorized
Via Cross River, Calabar, and Mawuh: En Route to Ambazonia Ambazonia most surely exists, with defined land mass, distinctive long history, culture, and most especially people. But you won’t find it on any maps, or even most accounts of modern Africa or peaceful...
Mar 22, 2019 | FORusa Feature, General, Uncategorized
In a time of death, some men, the resisters, those who work hardily for social change, those who preach and embrace the truth, such men overcome death, their lives are bathed in the light of the resurrection, the truth has set them free… We say: Killing is...
Mar 21, 2019 | Civil Rights, FORusa Feature, Racial, Reparations
We need to deepen our analysis of the lives and legacies of revered leaders, especially in the arenas of activism and social change. As Coleman Hughes recently pointed out in The New York Times (“The Gay, Black Civil Rights Hero Opposed to Affirmative...
