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Our Deepest Prayers and Condolences to the victims and families of those slain in Orlando

June 12, 2016 No Comments

AsSalaamu Alaikum wa Rahmatullah wa Barakatu (May the peace and blessings of Allah be with all of you) My Dear Brothers and Sisters, Our prayers and condolences are with the victims and families and friends of this unspeakable act. My condemnation of this horrible act I squarely put on those misguided and twisted individuals and organizations who have shown that they

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De-Incarceration, a Different Drum so Needed

June 8, 2016 No Comments

Along with VCNV companions, I’m part of a 150 mile walk from Chicago to Thomson, IL, a small town in northwest Illinois where the U.S. Bureau of Prisons is setting up an Administrative Maximum prison, also known as a Supermax. Prison laborers from U.S. minimum security prisons now labor to turn what once was an Illinois state prison into a federal Supermax

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Building faith-based nonviolence in Ferguson and nationwide

June 8, 2016 No Comments

Thank you for your ongoing support of FOR‘s Campus Weekend trainings in nonviolent resistance! Right now I am in St. Louis, working with FOR Bayard Rustin Fellow Rev. Osagyefo Sekou and faculty from the Phillips Theological Seminary in a week-long program of faith-based nonviolence — you can see pictures of this event at right. I wanted to take a moment to update you about this

Remembering my friend Muhammad Ali

June 7, 2016 No Comments

Friend of FOR Rich Lapchick penned this moving tribute to Muhammad Ali for ESPNon Monday. I wrote columns for ESPN on Muhammad Ali’s 65thand 70th birthdays. I was looking forward to writing again in January 2017 for his 75th birthday. That was obviously not meant to be as the world mourns the loss of this giant. […] Some two decades after Ali spoke to the U.N., “the man from Ghana,” whose name

Remembering my friend Muhammad Ali

June 7, 2016 No Comments

Friend of FOR Rich Lapchick penned this moving tribute to Muhammad Ali for ESPNon Monday. I wrote columns for ESPN on Muhammad Ali’s 65thand 70th birthdays. I was looking forward to writing again in January 2017 for his 75th birthday. That was obviously not meant to be as the world mourns the loss of this giant. […] Some two decades after Ali spoke to the U.N., “the man from Ghana,” whose name

☪ Ramadan Kareem! رمضان كريم

June 5, 2016 No Comments

By La Trina Jackson The holiest month of the Islamic calendar, Ramadan, has come. Muslims and others observers of Ramadan around the world are greeting each other with wishes for a Ramadan Kareem or a Generous Ramadan. The spiritual practices that accompany Ramadan, fasting, praying and acts of service, invite us to lean into our best selves and rehearse the core tenets