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...
Aug 29, 2020 | Community, FORusa Affiliate, Human Rights, Interfaith, North America, Social Justice
by Susan H. Smith As Muslim and Arab students join their classmates in heading back to school this fall, the 19th anniversary of the September 11 terror attacks weighs on their minds. It’s a time of perennial blame and shame, a time when classmates and teachers hold...
Mar 21, 2019 | FORusa Affiliate, FORusa Feature, FORusa Publications, Interfaith, International, Reparations
I’m Puerto Rican, but I didn’t learn much about the history of Puerto Rico or the political implications of its being a territory of the United States until I was a freshman at Brooklyn College. It was devastating but not surprising that I would learn so little about...