August 18, 2019
In May 1961, a group of interracial civil rights activists journeyed together through the South to challenge the non-enforcement of US Supreme Court rulings outlawing segregation on interstate buses. During a recent road trip through Alabama, I followed their path. Dubbed the “Freedom Riders” and sponsored by the Congress of Racial Equality (CORE), they planned […]
August 14, 2019
This is a post about my visit in the summer of 2019 to Tuskegee University, in eastern Alabama, which was an opportunity to learn about two amazing Americans and the legacy they left behind. Those two individuals are Booker T. Washington, the founding president of the school, and George Washington Carver, a scientist he recruited […]
August 27, 2019
Different dreams in Atlanta, Georgia. A thread. Dreams of the Lost Cause: The images of Jefferson Davis, Robert E Lee, and Stonewall Jackson carved into Stone Mountain, Georgia. The top of Stone Mountain was infamously the site of the second foundation of the Ku Klux Klan in 1915. Statue of Mahatma Gandhi at the Martin […]