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60 Years of A Charlie Brown Christmas

December 1965. It was 60 years ago, in December 1965, that Charles Schulz’ classic, A...

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Memphis, Mercy, and the Men We Remember

The Hand That Wasn’t There... Just after Tyre Nichols died in Memphis in 2023, I...

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March 02, 2025

The Cost of Looking Away: Who Is My Neighbor?

On Mercy... One hour, twenty minutes. That's how long Hugo Tale-Yax lay on a sidewalk...

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February 10, 2025

The harvest is plentiful, but the laborers are few…

  Prudence Crandall is recognized as the State Heroine of Connecticut. As a young teacher,...

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September 07, 2023

A September to Remember: Hearing Shared History from the Voices of the Disenfranchised

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

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June 30, 2023

Poverty, by America: Is it possible to change our nation’s conversation on poverty?

What caused the fire? When scholar and author Matthew Desmond spoke in Memphis in May...

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May 13, 2023

Frances Perkins: The Intersection of Faith and Policy

  Frances Perkins was having lunch in New York on March 25, 1911, when the...

May 08, 2023

Carolyn Bryant Donham, Emmett Till, and a Nation’s Uncomfortable History with Lynching

             Carolyn Bryant (now Donham), whose accusations against Emmett Till...

March 2023

March 21, 2023

Remembering South Africa’s Sharpeville Massacre: Peaceful protests and cries for justice

  On March 21, 1960, a group of South African men from the township of...

March 15, 2023

Lessons from the life of Jimmy Carter

  Several years ago, I heard an address given by a leader nearing retirement; he...

March 03, 2023

What was the Freedmen’s Bureau, and did it succeed?

    On March 3, 1865, the eve of President Abraham Lincoln’s second inauguration, Lincoln...

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February 18, 2023

A Voice for Freedom: Remembering Frederick Douglass

I think of my great-grandfather when I think of Frederick Douglass. I’m told that my...

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