“We are confronted with the fierce urgency of now… We still have a choice today: nonviolent coexistence or violent coannihilation. We must move past indecision to action…. Our only hope today lies in our ability to recapture the revolutionary spirit… Continue Reading
Martin Luther King, Jr. at the March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom, August 28, 1963; public domain “The night before, Harry Belafonte called me at Willard Hotel insisting that I tell him what suit and color I planned on… Continue Reading
January 6, 2021 attack on the US Capitol, Wikipedia Commons From the transcript of yesterday’s (July 12) hearing of the House select committee investigating the January 6 Capitol attack: CONGRESSMAN JAMIE RASKIN: Never before in American history had… Continue Reading
Today, on this Fourth of July, I reflect on perhaps the three greatest speeches in our nation’s history, and share incisive passages from each: Frederick Douglass, “What, to the Slave, is the Fourth of July?“, July 4, 1852, Rochester,… Continue Reading
March for Our Lives youth protestors, 2018, St. Paul, MN. Wikimedia, Creative Commons. For many years, Stanford Law Professor John Donohue has used his extraordinary skill in the field of empirical legal scholarship in a dedicated 24/7 effort to reduce… Continue Reading
Photo by Jason Francisco Dr Martin Luther King, Jr.’s last book, published in 1967, asked a question that still haunts our society: Where Do We Go From Here: Chaos or Community? Today the federal government’s judicial branch pushed our nation toward… Continue Reading
San Francisco-Birmingham Unity March, Market Street to City Hall, May 26, 1963, courtesy of Bancroft Library Yesterday, for the second time in U.S. history, we celebrated Juneteenth as an official national holiday. I am grateful to have had a… Continue Reading
From the Supervisory Committee For Recruiting Colored Regiments, Wikimedia, Public Domain Today, as we commemorate Juneteenth – together with Father’s Day — at picnics, barbecues, festivals, concerts and family events across the San Francisco Bay Area and the nation,… Continue Reading
Wikimedia commons. The Israeli writer A.B. Yehoshua died today in Tel Aviv. Yehoshua was often associated with Amos Oz and David Grossman as giants of Hebrew and world literature. All three advocated tirelessly for peace and reconciliation with the Palestinians,… Continue Reading
March for Our Lives, public domain photograph from Wikimedia Commons “With a heart shattered over the massacre at the elementary school in Texas, I pray for the children and adults who were killed and for their families. It is… Continue Reading
In Buffalo and Texas (after In Flander’s Field by Lt. Col. John McCrae, 1915) Jonathan D. Greenberg In Texas close to Mexico, And New York burial grounds The poppies blow Between the crosses, row on row That mark our… Continue Reading
