Between the sessions we watched clips from “King: a Filmed Record” (Trailer) and the short history of housing policies directed at segregation titled “Segregated by Design,” directed by Mark Lopez. The point of each of these was to give visual cues about how white people in America have said “stand over there” to our brothers …
See all four parts of this series: Part 1: Jesus, an Interpretation, and Fear Part 2: Deception Part 3: Hate Part 4: Love Howard Thurman was an influence on Martin Luther King Jr. The Stanford King Encyclopedia says that during the Montgomery bus boycott King read and reread Jesus and the Disinherited. I am documenting …
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My academic project leaves me very little time to reflect on current events or to comment in public on them. But I take up pen in this instance to provide a short stab at what I take to be one of the most fundamental misunderstanding in the ongoing conversation on interethnic reconciliation. On the one hand, white Americans …
