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April 2024

April 14, 2024
  26When Jesus saw his mother and the disciple whom he loved standing beside her,...

December 2023

December 04, 2023
It's that time of year...long, chilly December evenings seem to be meant for movie watching....

November 2023

November 18, 2023
    Genesis 25:7-10: 7 This is the length of Abraham’s life, one hundred and seventy-five years. 8Abraham...

September 2023

September 07, 2023
On September 4, 1957, Black students who would later be called the Little Rock Nine...

August 2023

August 11, 2023
  Fear drove the Jabara family from Lebanon. Khalid, Rami and Victoria Jabara’s parents feared...

July 2023

July 01, 2023
  Back in the day, choosing not to identify oneself by race in applying to...

June 2023

June 30, 2023
What caused the fire? When scholar and author Matthew Desmond spoke in Memphis in May...
June 15, 2023
  June 18, 1964. It's often said that a picture is worth 1,000 words. So...

May 2023

May 13, 2023
  Frances Perkins was having lunch in New York on March 25, 1911, when the...
May 08, 2023
             Carolyn Bryant (now Donham), whose accusations against Emmett Till...

April 2023

April 07, 2023
  Lester Tanner wasn’t trying to make a name for himself when he shared the...

March 2023

March 21, 2023
  On March 21, 1960, a group of South African men from the township of...
March 15, 2023
  Several years ago, I heard an address given by a leader who was nearing...
March 03, 2023
    On March 3, 1865, the eve of President Abraham Lincoln’s second inauguration, Lincoln...

February 2023

February 18, 2023
I think of my great-grandfather when I think of Frederick Douglass. I’m told that my...
February 17, 2023
In 2017, I stumbled across an article about a statue of a physician named J....
February 11, 2023
  Thursday, February 1, 1968 was a cold, rainy day. Memphis sanitation workers Echol Cole...

January 2023

January 31, 2023
People often ask me why I’m not a fan of Black History Month. My explanation...
January 27, 2023
Now the man knew his wife Eve, and she conceived and bore Cain, saying, ‘I...
January 13, 2023
As we pause to celebrate the life and legacy of Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King,...
January 09, 2023
What do two "prostitutes," a "stripper," an "adulteress" and a young unwed pregnant woman have...
January 02, 2023
Growing up in a Christian denomination in which the scriptural stories of women were never...

December 2022

December 24, 2022
It was the calm in the midst of the storm. That’s how historians describe the...
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