Tag: Social Justice
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To Hunger and Thirst for Justice…
Photo by Murilo Soares “Blessed are those who hunger and thirst for justice…, for they will be satisfied…”(Jesus) “Don’t let your mouth write a check your ass can’t cash, son…” (Charles Portis) The Civil Rights Movement was led by a generation of marginalized and exploited minorities who through years of social and political turmoil…in faith, put…
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Which came first, the Chicken or the Egg?
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(Photo Courtesy of Pixabay.com) After Tony (not his real name) was born, his mom left him at the hospital. She was a crack addict and was obviously not in any condition to be a parent. When the hospital discovered she had left, they called his maternal grandmother, who was listed as an emergency contact on…
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Salt, Light…& Leaven
Going to Church with my Grandmother As a child, in the 60’s, Church was not very engaging to me. But like many of my generation, I had to go. Most Sundays, we (meaning me, my sister, and my cousins) went to Church with our Grandmother. The routine was to spend Saturday nights at her house, wake up…
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A Rose by any other name would smell as sweet…
This line from William Shakespeare’s Romeo and Juliet often brings to mind a dear friend and Mentor of mine who is now in his 90’s. Over the years when I visited him he would often call me John, which was the name of a childhood friend of his that he loved. In some way I…
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Yes, there is only one Race, the Human Race, but…
By Keith Reynolds & Robert Caldwell It’s likely that we’ve all heard someone say something like, “We don’t have all these races. There’s only one race… the human race.” While that may, in essence, be true, American values and social norms have established structures that sort us into racial, ethnic, gender, class and ability identities.…
