Nov 19, 2018 | Beloved Community, FORusa Feature, Nonviolence, Youth
A few months after the Ferguson Uprising began in August 2014, Shirah-Moffatt Darko traveled from Bucknell University in central Pennsylvania to New York’s Hudson Valley to attend a Fellowship of Reconciliation young adult nonviolence training program. That...
Sep 21, 2018 | FORusa Feature, Human Rights, Nonviolence
In 1978 and 1979, Nicaraguans took up arms to depose a dictatorship, and I am forever thankful for their heroic actions and for getting rid of the 43-year-old Somoza tyranny. In 2018, people are protesting nonviolently to end a second dictatorship, which is made up by...
Aug 30, 2018 | Civil Rights, FORusa Feature, MLK, Nonviolence
I traveled to Ithaca, New York, earlier this month to attend the public memorial service for Dorothy Cotton, the under-recognized educator, organizer, and singer/musician. Her legacy is little known despite having been the only woman to hold a leadership position at...
