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White Liberals Rob Martin Luther King of His Black South Roots

January 21, 2019 No Comments

From my front porch Please celebrate and share with me this story of my people and their son, Martin Luther King. Lord, they done gone and stole our Martin Luther King, our Chile, into a materialist so much that we hardly know him or see ourselves. On this day as we remember King, please accept this gift of recapitulation, restoration,

Winter Solstice Prayer

December 21, 2018 No Comments

May we utilize the serenity of this blessed winter season to journey deep within our own hearts. May we search our souls for the perfected reflection of our true being. May we release our differences into the chill of the evening air, watching the bias, prejudice and fear dissolve as effortlessly as breath. May we each lay down our insecurities,

How You Can Act for Migrant Justice at the Border

December 7, 2018 No Comments

Tear gas on children. Tens of thousands of immigrants imprisoned and awaiting deportation. Military troops instead of humanitarian aid. The denial of asylum to thousands of people fleeing rampant violence in their homelands. What we are experiencing is a moral crisis as much as it is a political one. As this security state employs a white supremacist mandate to demonize,

The Faces of FOR: Shirah Moffatt-Darko

November 19, 2018 No Comments

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 Campus Weekend initiative in January 2015 ultimately helped lead Shirah, now a Bucknell graduate, to enter into a dedicated life of spiritually-rooted service,

The Faces of FOR: Shirah Moffatt-Darko

November 19, 2018 No Comments

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 Campus Weekend initiative in January 2015 ultimately helped lead Shirah, now a Bucknell graduate, to enter into a dedicated life of spiritually-rooted service,

The Faces of FOR: JuJu Holton

November 8, 2018 No Comments

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 of Keith Lamont Scott, a black father who was reading a book in his car when he was