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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

With Trump endorsement, Paul Ryan risks gaining the world, but losing his soul

June 3, 2016 No Comments

Originally posted on Waging Nonviolence. “Are you aware that Ryan endorsed Trump today?” asked the local television reporter after our #GiveRefugeesRest delegation met with House Speaker Paul Ryan at his district office in Janesville, Wisconsin on Thursday. As it happened, we weren’t aware — the endorsement literally came while we were meeting with him, with an unobtrusive tweeted link to a column

With Trump endorsement, Paul Ryan risks gaining the world, but losing his soul

June 3, 2016 No Comments

Originally posted on Waging Nonviolence. “Are you aware that Ryan endorsed Trump today?” asked the local television reporter after our #GiveRefugeesRest delegation met with House Speaker Paul Ryan at his district office in Janesville, Wisconsin on Thursday. As it happened, we weren’t aware — the endorsement literally came while we were meeting with him, with an unobtrusive tweeted link to a column

Paul Ryan supports campaign to stop Islamophobia while backing Trump’s hate-fueled bid for president

June 2, 2016 No Comments

Rep. Paul Ryan publicized his endorsement of Donald Trump’s presidential campaign within moments of hosting a meeting with staff and members of the Fellowship of Reconciliation, along with supporters of FOR’s #GiveRefugeesRest campaign, a national campaign to end Islamophobia. The move further exposed the emptiness of Ryan’s protestations regarding the vitriolic campaign of his party’s presumptive nominee, Donald Trump, and damaged efforts to create interfaith, multi-partisan