by Susan | Apr 10, 2016 | this day in peace and justice history
April 10, 1956 Nat “King” Cole was attacked and severely beaten by three members of the North Alabama White Citizen’s Council while singing “Little Girl” with the Ted Heath Band at the Municipal Hall in Birmingham, Alabama. Although local law...
by Susan | Apr 9, 2016 | National Poetry Month
All of you undisturbed cities, haven’t you ever longed for the enemy? I’d like to see you besieged by him for ten endless and ground-shaking years. Until you were desperate and mad with suffering; finally in hunger you would feel his weight. He lies outside the walls...
by Susan | Apr 9, 2016 | this day in peace and justice history
April 9, 2006 As many as a half million immigrants and their supporters marched in downtown Dallas in what one activist described as the largest civil rights march in the city’s history. The protesters urged federal lawmakers to reform the nation’s...
by Susan | Apr 8, 2016 | National Poetry Month
If you want to know the heart of a town You better read, What in its walls have been written down? If the walls are blank And deliver no message for today or tomorrow People there are frightened and in a deep sorrow If there is Only a very unique slogan The town is...
by Susan | Apr 7, 2016 | National Poetry Month
Who built the seven gates of Thebes? The books are filled with names of kings. Was it the kings who hauled the craggy blocks of stone? And Babylon, so many times destroyed. Who built the city up each time? In which of Lima’s houses, That city glittering with gold,...
