One year ago, on July 17, 2000, we lost two of the greatest heroes of the nonviolent Black Freedom Movement of the United States: Rev. C. T. Vivian, and Congressman John Lewis. We share below is a short video clip… Continue Reading
Today, April 27, we celebrate the birthday of Coretta Scott King (April 27, 1927 — January 30, 2006), one of the most influential and transformative leaders in 20th century American and global history, and we honor her blessed memory.
The epithet dirty Jew is the scourge of our time. It’s a lie! — and it is all the more odious and cynical that they lie with impunity… They stir up France, they hide behind its legitimate emotion, they close… Continue Reading
Sarah Halimi was French, Parisian. She was an observant, Orthodox Jew. She was a doctor, a family practitioner. She was the director of an acclaimed government-funded preschool. She was the mother of two daughters and one son. Sarah Halimi lived… Continue Reading
Last week, a leading group of genocide scholars published a statement urging humanity to regard climate change and related environmental degradation created by human dependence on fossil fuels as an existential threat not only to the Earth’s ecosystems but to… Continue Reading
Today is the 14th anniversary of the mass shooting on the campus of Virginia Tech. On April 16, 2007, a student gunman murdered thirty-two fellow students and faculty members, ranging in age from 18 to 76, before taking his own… Continue Reading
The anthropologist Marshall Sahlins died last week. In his extensive fieldwork (especially in indigenous Pacific Island communities), his pathbreaking scholarship, and a long teaching career at the University of Michigan and the University of Chicago, he profoundly impacted the fields… Continue Reading
On April 3, 1968, the night before his assassination on April 4 — 53 years ago today, Easter Sunday 2021 — Dr. Martin Luther King spoke to a large crowd assembled at the Mason Temple in Memphis TN to support… Continue Reading
In December 1970, César Chávez was incarcerated for 20 days for refusing to end a strike against large lettuce growers in the Salinas Valley. After visiting Chávez in jail, Coretta Scott King spoke to an assembly of two thousand farm… Continue Reading
