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 ...