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Adding Other Voices to the Memorial in Phoenix on Sunday
Hear & Watch Black pastors Speak on Idolizing Charlie Kirk: Excerpts from clips compiled by Roland S. Martin on YouTube Martin: Black pastors from across the country certainly were not holding back...
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Is the Next ICE City Invasion About to Break Out?
The headline in The New Republic (TNR) on August 2 was dire: “Trump’s Domestic Use of Military Set to Get Worse, Leaked Memo Shows,” it blared. Well, maybe. TNR said it had been leaked a confidential...
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When Good Trouble Got Serious: John Lewis- at the Pettus Bridge, 1965 — And...
In early February, 1965, I was jailed for 10 days in Selma, Alabama after being arrested in a peaceful march in support of voting rights for black citizens. Along with several dozen others, I slept on...
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A Special July 4 Memorial: My Neighbor Hazeline Umstead
Ms. Hazel’s Last July 4th — 2023: Her Flags & The Prayer Line Ms. Hazeltine Umstead, with hammer & flags, July 2023. I lived next door to Ms. Hazeline Umstead for twelve years. She was...
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NEWS: White House Ignores Juneteenth. It Happens Anyway.
BY DARLENE SUPERVILLE Updated 05:42 PM EDT, June 19, 2025 AP Newsroom ASSOCIATED PRESS: White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt speaks during a press briefing at the White House WASHINGTON (AP)...
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Juneteenth Is Alive Here — 2025
“In 2025 . . . celebrations of Juneteenth are being cut back or even canceled. Corporate sponsors and local governments, as well as the national government, are pulling back their support for...
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The Naval Academy Library’s Magical Minstrel Show for Massa Hegseth
I hate to admit it, but my authorial ego was bruised by wading through the list of 381 books pulled from the Nimitz Library of the U. S. Naval Academy last week. It tallied the volumes expelled by...
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“Bloody Sunday” in Selma plus 60: Victory Undone, Battle Renewed
Marchers re-enacting in 2005 the first crossing of the Pettus Bridge 40 years earlier. Below is a black & white news photo from late February, 1965. It turned up a few years back (hat tip to the...
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A Shadow on the Daffodils: Preaching from the Big Book of Nobody
Daffs, going wild again. This past First Day (Quaker talk for Sunday) I Zoomed into worship in my Friends meeting, the one out in the farmland of Flyover County, North By-God Carolina, where I missed...
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More Un-Banned Black History: Tom Ricks on The Civil Rights Movement as a...
The Guardian — Interview ‘It’s good to think strategically’: Thomas E Ricks on civil rights and January 6 Martin Pengelly in Washington — Published 8 October 2022 In his new book, the historian...
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Shot Down & Sunk: Pete Hegseth’s “American Crusade” Bags its First...
If Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth should fall off the wagon and be dragged off the public stage to rehab, his Pentagon tenure, however brief or long, will surely be remembered for one thing; or maybe...
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Pete Hegseth Wants to “Bleach the Barracks,” Starting By Firing the Top Black...
Just wrote a blog post on the nomination of Pete Hegseth for Secretary of Defense. It’s posted on the blog of my former employer, Quaker House of Fayetteville NC, near Fort Liberty (neé Fort Bragg)....
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“Nazi, Schmazi. . .” Mark Robinson Retains Some Church Backers
New York Times — On Politics September 23, 2024 POSTCARD FROM RALEIGH A church where Mark Robinson still has defenders By Jess Bidgood — September 23, 2024 The latest, with 43 days to go It was about...
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Part Four (Conclusion): Why September Should Be “Willie Frye Month”
Why September Should Be “Willie Frye” Month — Part Four- Conclusion [Part One is here.] [Part Two is here.] [Part Three is here.] Willie Frye Jr. 21. 1994-1995 — In a 1994 statement to the NC Yearly...
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Part Two: Why September Should Be “Willie Frye” Month (For Quakers & Justice...
Why September Should Be “Willie Frye” Month — Part Two [Part One is here.] [Part Three is Here.] [Part Four is here.] [In 1966, Willie Frye Jr., a Quaker pastor in Goldsboro, North Carolina, had not...
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For Quakers (& Justice Seekers), September Should Be “Willie Frye” Month;...
The Top Ten Things Quakers & Seekers Need to Know About Willie Frye Jr.: A Preamble: Why should September be Willie Frye month? Willie Frye Jr. (1931-2013) Two main reasons: One, because he was...
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DNC: Monday, Monday– Can’t Stop That Day . . .
Here are a few of what I felt were highlights of the first day and night at the DNC (seen from my recliner at home, but a marathon even so). As I predicted, the Chicago cops were out on their bikes for...
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OMG! Nixon Resigned 50 Years Ago! A Great American/Quaker Nostalgia Read
Richard Nixon resigned 50 years ago. The political world has never been the same. David Jackson USA TODAY August 8, 2024 WASHINGTON – Exactly 50 years ago, a beleaguered President Richard M. Nixon...
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Meme Alert: This Just Fell Out of My Coconut Tree . . .
The Economist: United States | The “brat” vote Is Kamala Harris “brat”? America’s TikTok election just became more interesting Jul 25th 2024|new york “You think you just fell out of a coconut tree?”,...
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Saving Obama In Selma 2015: For Reading When You’re Not Thinking About Milwaukee
Durham, North Carolina, and Selma, Alabama In the autumn of 2014, still settling into retirement in Durham, a question began nagging at me: was Barack Obama going to get shot in Selma Alabama the...
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