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Commemorating Bloody Sunday, Because Black Lives Matter!

Sunday, March 7, 2021 at 7:43 AM
Written by Anthony L. Hall

No doubt images from Bloody Sunday are as indelibly seared in America’s national consciousness as those from the JFK assassination. And, in each case, a picture is truly worth a thousand words. In fact, adding yet more words seems superfluous, if not presumptuous. Therefore, I shall suffice to reprise excerpts from a few commentaries. The first… Read more.

John Lewis, Civil Rights Pioneer, Is Dead

Saturday, July 18, 2020 at 8:26 AM
Written by Anthony L. Hall

Representative John Lewis, a son of sharecroppers and an apostle of nonviolence who was bloodied at Selma and across the Jim Crow South in the historic struggle for racial equality, and who then carried a mantle of moral authority into Congress, died on Friday. … On the front lines of the bloody campaign to end… Read more.