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2014-04-05T13:03:44-06:00

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Remembering Pete Seeger & the Power of Song with Candie Carawan

Last updated on: April 5, 2014 at 1:03 pm By Jonathan Wilson-Hartgrove

Since Pete Seeger’s death in January of this year, folks who know that I’m a sometimes song leader have asked me about him and his influence on communities that struggle for peace and justice. Maybe Pete said it best himself: “Finding the right songs and singing them over and over is a way to begin to make our lives once more all of a piece. And when one person taps out a beat while another leads into the melody, or... Read more

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2014-04-04T12:12:45-06:00

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A Martyr’s Gift: What Martin Luther King Died For

Last updated on: April 4, 2014 at 12:12 pm By Jonathan Wilson-Hartgrove

Fourty-six years ago today, Dr. Martin Luther King was gunned down in Memphis, TN. In the Christian tradition, martyr’s death days are their feast days, when we remember what they lived for by paying attention to what they died for. Though King’s own organization, the Southern Christian Leadership Conference, was scrambling to plan its Poor People’s March on Washington, King went to Memphis to support the struggle for sanitation workers rights that his friend and nonviolent teacher, Jim Lawson, had... Read more

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2014-03-21T10:02:50-06:00

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Meeting Jesus at Rutba (and Elsewhere Along the Way)

Last updated on: March 21, 2014 at 10:02 am By Jonathan Wilson-Hartgrove

Eleven years ago, as the US was bombing Iraq, some friends of ours hit a piece of shrapnel near a place called Rutba and almost died in the ensuing accident. The doctor who saved them said, “Three days ago your country bombed our hospital, but we will take care of you.” They were saved by the Good Iraqi, and we’ve been trying to learn the hospitality they taught us ever since at Rutba House. Looking back this anniversary, this poem... Read more

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2014-03-07T08:53:06-07:00

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What’s Happening in NC? Faith-Rooted Organizing is Bearing Fruit

Last updated on: March 7, 2014 at 8:53 am By Jonathan Wilson-Hartgrove

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 the Civil Rights Movement is getting born again. Most of them have read a news story or seen coverage of protests against the extremist takeover of NC government in the past year. (If you have an hour, Bill Moyer’s “State of... Read more

2014-02-19T19:42:31-07:00

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The Freedom Movement Today

Last updated on: February 19, 2014 at 7:42 pm By Jonathan Wilson-Hartgrove

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 year,” a friend of mine wryly observes. But it’s amazing how broadly we celebrate those who sat-in, marched, and cried out for justice in America 50 years ago. No one in America today can argue that King doesn’t matter. He’s standing on the National Mall, memorialized in stone.... Read more

2014-01-10T10:01:57-07:00

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An Open Letter to Durham Police Chief Jose Lopez

Last updated on: January 10, 2014 at 10:01 am By Jonathan Wilson-Hartgrove

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 Walltown Neighborhood Ministries, which I serve as Chair, had invited you the day before to attend a public forum in our neighborhood on December 5th, 2012, to address these concerns. I was impressed by the speed of your reply. I had great hopes that we could work... Read more

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2013-12-23T13:29:04-07:00

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The Road Home: A Christmas Story

Last updated on: December 23, 2013 at 1:29 pm By Jonathan Wilson-Hartgrove

Since publishing Strangers at My Door six weeks ago, I’ve had the chance to tell stories of formerly homeless folks who’ve lived with us at Rutba House–women and men who’ve invited me into their world, become friends, and changed my way of seeing. Whenever I tell these stories, someone asks what hospitality might mean for them. So I tell them about how, in the city where I live, we’ve been trying to change a law that makes it illegal to... Read more

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2013-12-21T12:49:01-07:00

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Duck Dynasty: Join the Real Rebels

Last updated on: December 21, 2013 at 12:49 pm By Jonathan Wilson-Hartgrove

I’m just back from a week of Freedom Riding with some of today’s most inspiring young people and some of the 1960’s most courageous leaders. Back home in tobacco country for a family wedding this weekend, I’ve been thinking about how often Southern white folks have been duped into fighting the blacks or the Mexicans–or even the “white trash”–so that the balance of power remains in the control of elites.Why did so many Southerners fight and die to keep slavery... Read more

2013-12-13T15:52:26-07:00

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Freedom Then, Freedom Now

Last updated on: December 13, 2013 at 3:52 pm By Jonathan Wilson-Hartgrove

27 years ago, when Tameeka answered a knock at her door here in Walltown, she couldn’t have imagined the full weight of the words she heard from the officer who was standing there. Sure, she knew she was in trouble. That’s why she went to the law library at Duke and did research for herself. But her lawyer said she’d never beat the charge—said her best bet was to take the plea deal the DA was offering. That way she... Read more

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2013-12-12T13:20:05-07:00

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Can Young People Change a Nation?

Last updated on: December 12, 2013 at 1:20 pm By Jonathan Wilson-Hartgrove

In the spring of 1961, Kennedy’s White House was focused on Cold War politics. The civil rights struggle in the South felt like a distraction to the President and his staff, the FBI opposed the movement as Communist, and most people in middle America were just getting ready for Mother’s Day weekend. But the day after Mother’s Day, 1961, a burning bus was on the front cover a newspapers across the country. In Aniston and Birmingham, AL, the Klan violently... Read more

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