It’s a muggy but otherwise pleasant late summer evening. I’m having a socially distanced happy hour with my good friend and next-door
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This week’s Torah portion is Sh’lach L’cha ( Num 13:1-15:41) in which the Israelites must decide if they will respond out of courage or out of fear. Our history is replete with instances of moral reckoning, including the present moment. Leaders of the
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How Did We Get Here Vern Braswell, a Black defendant, was charged with first-degree murder in the death of his wife, Sheila, in 2004 in Shelby County (Memphis), Tennessee. Sheila was discovered
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By Bruce Hartford, April 2021 One of the great achievements of the long civil rights movement was establishing a broad consensus that racism is evil. Trumpism is trying to roll back that
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As I watch images of violent white-supremacist mobs in the streets and armed Trumpites threatening to lynch election officials, I’m reminded of the lessons that we of the 1960s Freedom Movement learned
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Please share this with as many as you can. I need others to help me with this fight.
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But, still, I vote. And because I do, my action will be revolutionary. Look, a revolution can start with one person or it can start with a million, but this revolution needs
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According to a brand-new Department of Homeland Security report, white supremacists present the gravest terror threat to the United States. Let’s talk about Representative Michael McCaul’s deep history of downplaying the rise
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It’s a muggy but otherwise pleasant late summer evening. I’m having a socially distanced happy hour with my good friend and next-door neighbor, Barb. We are sitting in our suburban cul-de-sac enjoying
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In 1900, Montgomery, Alabama. passed a city ordinance for the purpose of segregating bus passengers by race. Conductors had the power to assign seats to carry out that purpose; however, no passengers
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Last week, three days after my father passed away, I was notified of phone calls in my district speaking in support of my opponent. These calls were filled with misleading personal attacks,
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