Martin Luther King, Jr. photographed by Marion S. Trikosko, 1964. LC-DIG-ppmsc-01269; Library of Congress Tomorrow, January 15, 2022, is Martin Luther King, Jr.s birthday, and the national holiday celebrating Dr. King’s legacy is this Monday, January 17. How should… Continue Reading
From Wikimedia Commons Remembering Desmond Tutu By Davison M. Douglas In 1982, I encountered Desmond Tutu for the first time. I was part of a group of students who had established an international human rights law program at Yale Law… Continue Reading
Photo by Greta Thunberg, Fridays For Future and Fridays For Future Glasgow At the opening of COP26, the UN summit on climate in Glasgow, Scotland, UN General Secretary António Guterres addressed the world leaders who had gathered: “The six years… Continue Reading
SNCC Pin, Smithsonian National Museum of African American History & Culture We who believe in freedom cannot rest… The SNCC Legacy Project had originally planned to honor the 60th anniversary of SNCC’s founding in Raleigh in April 2020,… Continue Reading
Martin Luther King Jr. & Thích Nhất Hạnh, Chicago 31-5-1966; Edward Kitch | Credit: AP; Creative Commons Prior to June 1965, Dr. King had occasionally expressed concern about the war in Vietnam, but he had done so publicly only in a tentative… Continue Reading
Today, October 11, we celebrate the 95th birthday of the Vietnamese Buddhist monk Thich Nhat Hanh, affectionately known as Thay. At age sixteen, in 1942, Thay entered Tu Hieu Temple, in Hue city, as a novice monk. His life has… Continue Reading
Today, October 2 is the birthday of Mohandas K. Gandhi, known as Mahatma Gandhi. In India, Gandhi Jayanti is celebrated as a national holiday. Honoring Gandhi’s legacy, in June 2007, the United Nations General Assembly declared October 2 as… Continue Reading
Photo from The Algebra Project website, https://algebra.org/wp/bob-moses/ Yesterday, in Cambridge, Massachusetts, a private memorial service was held to honor Robert Parris Moses (January 23, 1935 – July 25, 2021). Bob Moses was an immense leader of the Black Freedom Movement… Continue Reading
David Hartsough, cover photograph by McClatchy-Tribune Information Services, from the cover of David’s memoir, Waging Peace: Global Adventures of a Lifelong Activist (PM Press, 2014); https://blogs.swarthmore.edu/academics/pcs/2014/09/25/waging-peace-hartsough/ The Clarence B. Jones Award in Kingian Nonviolence is given annually by the USF… Continue Reading
An Afghan boy looks on, as U.S. soldiers serving with A Company, 2nd Battalion, 504th Parachute Infantry Regiment, 1st Brigade Combat Team, 82nd Airborne, patrol a village in the Giro district, Ghazni province, Afghanistan, May 8, 2012. (U.S. Army photo… Continue Reading
