Compiled by BPFNA ~ Bautistas por la Paz Board Member Rev. Kadia Edwards, this discussion guide will help provoke conversation around the issues presented in the newly-released film Selma and how these relate to the current conversation happening on race.
Read MoreWhen I received the news that one of my dearest mentors, “Uncle” Dr. Vincent G. Harding had passed away, I had just finished some research he invited me to do for him as he was preparing to dedicate time to a memoir he’d long planned to write. Dr. Harding had asked me to collect some of the essays he wrote in the 1960s. When I heard of his aneurysm, I called his cell phone and left him a message saying that I was thinking of and praying for him, and that I looked forward to hearing what he wanted me to do with the essays I’d collected. As I write these words, I still have those essays on my desk, and I wish so badly that I could call Uncle Vincent and have his voice advise me on what I ought to do with them.
Read MoreEl legado de Martin L. King, a quien Don Abelardo Díaz Alfaro llamó El Cristo Negro, no se reduce a su destacada y firme oposición al discrimen racial y a las prácticas segregacionistas. Su compromiso fue más allá de la lucha por los derechos civiles insertándose en asuntos como la carrera armamentista, el militarismo y la cultura bélica de los E. U. de N. A.
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