A New Day in North Carolina
For the past four Mondays in Raleigh, North Carolina, evening sessions at the Legislature building have been interrupted by a growing numbers of protesters. After months of petitioning Gov. McCrory and...
View ArticleAn Open Letter to Durham Police Chief Jose Lopez
Dear Chief Lopez, On October 31, 2012, I met with you to discuss concerns of the citizens of Durham’s Walltown neighborhood about policing in our neighborhood. I came at your request because the...
View ArticleThe Freedom Movement Today
In school rooms across America, kids like mine are coloring pictures of Martin Luther King and watching slide shows about Ms. Rosa Parks. It’s Black History Month again–”the shortest month of the...
View ArticleWhat’s Happening in NC? Faith-Rooted Organizing is Bearing Fruit
A few times a week these days I get a call or email from friends around the country who all ask me the same question: so, what’s happening down there in North Carolina? I’ve taken to telling them that...
View ArticleRace Baiting and Real Justice In NC
In 1898, when North Carolina’s white establishment was threatened by a fusion coalition that challenged their authority through the power of democracy, our state paper ran stories warning of black men...
View ArticleA Conspiracy of Silence? Listen to Our Grassroots Leaders
Bob Zellner’s civil rights memoir, The Wrong Side of Murder Creek, reads a bit like the Tom Hank’s movie Forrest Gump. A Southern Methodist kid, Zellner just happens to be in college in Montgomery when...
View ArticlePentecost Power: The Spirit Moving Through Moral Mondays
Christian’s around the world are celebrating Pentecost today, the birthday of the Church when the Spirit fell like fire on Jesus’ followers in Jerusalem, helping them to both speak and understand new...
View ArticleStruggle for Racial Justice is Local
Since Michelle Alexander published The New Jim Crow in 2010, communities of color across America have been talking about the need to dismantle America’s system of mass incarceration. As with the old...
View ArticleSound the Shofar! Women Lead #MoralWeekofAction
In 14 state capitals across the US, faith and justice leaders are organizing a Moral Week of Action to conclude the 50th anniversary of Dr. King’s “I Have a Dream” speech, in which he exhorted the...
View ArticleArrests Resume As Moral Movement Continues
Two years ago this week, seventeen people were arrested on the first “Moral Monday,” sparking a summer of protests in which tens of thousands came to register their objection to immoral policies backed...
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