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Christmas in Karbala

December 24, 2016 No Comments

Karbala, Iraq–It is Christmas day, and I am in Karbala with dear friends. We awoke to a second day of rain, and pictures of flooding, especially in Baghdad, are being shown on TV. Yesterday, on Christmas-eve, several tents caught fire in a camp for the internally displaced near Mosel. As I write you, I am looking at the charred remains

The Longest Night and the Growing Light

December 21, 2016 No Comments

The year 2016 will be remembered by many as a year of divisive politics fed by hateful rhetoric, scapegoating of the other, and fear of the unknown. “Refugee” and “radical extremists” became controversial buzzwords. A new generation of American citizens, Muslims and Sikhs, through guilt by association, became the current focus in a continuous cycle of targeted racism. Anti-Muslim rhetoric and fear

The Longest Night and the Growing Light

December 21, 2016 No Comments

The year 2016 will be remembered by many as a year of divisive politics fed by hateful rhetoric, scapegoating of the other, and fear of the unknown. “Refugee” and “radical extremists” became controversial buzzwords. A new generation of American citizens, Muslims and Sikhs, through guilt by association, became the current focus in a continuous cycle of targeted racism. Anti-Muslim rhetoric and fear

Yea, Though I Walk…

December 20, 2016 No Comments

Some years ago, I heard a story about a young woman who was walking in Detroit in the wee hours of the morning, going to catch a bus to go home. She had just gotten off work. It was so early that the sun was barely creeping over the horizon. The streets were nearly devoid of all traffic.

Give MARCH autographed by Rep. John Lewis for the holidays!

December 18, 2016 No Comments

United States Congressman and civil rights leader John Lewis said that he didn’t have the ten cents to buy FOR’s Martin Luther King and the Montgomery Story when it came out, but someone gave the comic book to him. As it happened, that little gift in 1958 would be the inspiration for Rep. Lewis’ award-winning three-book graphic memoir – MARCH! This year,

Give MARCH autographed by Rep. John Lewis for the holidays!

December 18, 2016 No Comments

United States Congressman and civil rights leader John Lewis said that he didn’t have the ten cents to buy FOR’s Martin Luther King and the Montgomery Story when it came out, but someone gave the comic book to him. As it happened, that little gift in 1958 would be the inspiration for Rep. Lewis’ award-winning three-book graphic memoir – MARCH! This year,