In 1961, black and white college students set out to desegregate interstate travel by riding buses in the Jim Crow south. Committed to nonviolent struggle, they met angry, violent white mobs without responding in kind and eventually succeeded in desegregating buses and bus stations. To mark the 50th anniversary of these rides, filmaker Stanley Nelson, [...]
On the campaign trail, Democracy Now reports that Senator Obama has been under Secret Service protection since last year when his campaign received racially motivated threats.
Here in Philadelphia, today’s Inquirer includes two stories of racial hatred. Posters circulating in Port Richmond by the group Keystone State Skinheads say, “Guns don’t kill people. Dangerous minorities [...]
In case you missed it last week, Michael Nutter signed five new gun control laws. They include a prohibition on the sale/possession of certain assault weapons, a requirement to report a lost or stolen gun, and a one-gun-a-month purchase limit. These laws only apply to the Philadelphia vicinity.
When I heard the news, I said, “About [...]
Here in Philadelphia, there will be an organized 40 seconds of silence to commemorate the killing of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. at Franklin Square Park.
David Brown, director of this first Bridge Walk for Peace, wrote in today’s Daily News, “In a world in which we’re bombarded with images, sounds and scents that constantly seep [...]
People yearning for peace and denouncing violence came out in force this week in Philadelphia.
Saturday, a nation-wide expression for peace in Iraq occurred in 11 cities throughout the country, with Philly being one of those places. Some of us at Shalom House were part of the human chain that snaked for 3 miles throughout the [...]