What’s Next for the Poor People’s Campaign?
How can we remake America so that “We the People” means all of us?
Why Racial Reconciliation Isn’t The Answer to Racial Violence
It’s wrong to hold the abused partner equally responsible for reconciling with the abuser
Don’t Domesticate MLK
Like it or not, Martin Luther King was controversial — and political.
Dr. King and Our Children: How to talk about and model his dream
JAN 21, 2014 | BY: KRISTEN HOWERTON -- As we celebrate the impact of Dr. King, I’ve seen many links to posts about how to talk to...
Why I’m Fasting with the Dream 9
JULY 28, 2013 | BY: JONATHAN WILSON-HARTGROVE -- When the DREAM Act failed, these young people of great faith did not give up...
Dr. Vincent Harding, MLK & The One’s We’ve Been Waiting For (with AUDIO)
May 7, 2013 | BY: JARROD MCKENNA -- Who are we building into? Who are we teaching what we’ve been taught? I ask this of us...
The Church and the New Civil Rights Movement
Richard “Dick” Brogan was a personal friend, and he was one of my heroes.
Dick was a white Mississippi Baptist minister who worked tirelessly to build relationships between whites and blacks during segregatio...
Occupy Nonviolence: Not Flesh and Blood
Amid the recent police violence in Oakland and the sure temptation of some protestors to resort to violence, I wrote this little reflection inviting all Occupiers to a renewed commitment to nonviolence.
There...
What Would MLK Do? Christians and Climate Change
Early in the civil rights movement, Bayard Rustin said to King, "I have a feeling that the Lord had laid his hand upon you. And that is a dangerous, dangerous thing." Similarly, the FBI once described Marti...
This Train: Songs of the Civil Rights Movement
“I’m not black,
but there’s a whole lot of times
I wish I could say I’m not white.”
-Frank Zappa
The history and progress of civil rights in America has never been easy, and many times it has been downright ...