Archbishop Desmond Tutu: Gonzaga University graduates deserve the honor of hearing him.

Posted on April 20, 2012 by Robert Lloyd

Archbishop Desmond Tutu with Nelson Mandela. Both men were awarded the Nobel Peace Prize.

A powerful network of right-wing Catholics is trying to ban Archbishop Desmond Tutu from speaking at Gonzaga University next month.

Archbishop Tutu, who won the Nobel Peace Prize for his courageous opposition to South African apartheid, is beloved around the world as a powerful voice for peace and justice. But that doesn’t matter to the extremists who’ve been waging a McCarthyist campaign of fear and intimidation on Catholic college campuses across the country.

The Cardinal Newman Society, which led the opposition to President Obama’s commencement speech at Notre Dame three years ago, is circulating a petition demanding that the President of Gonzaga University disinvite Archbishop Tutu—but so far this time they only have a few hundred signatures. Let’s make sure Gonzaga doesn’t give in to the Religious Right!

That’s why I created a petition to Thayne McCulloh, President, Gonzaga Univeresity on SignOn.org, which says:

Archbishop Desmond Tutu is a powerful voice for peace and justice, and Gonzaga University graduates deserve the honor of hearing him speak at commencement this year. Don’t give in to the Religious Right extremists who are trying to silence him.

Will you sign the petition? Click here to add your name, and then pass it along to your friends:

http://www.moveon.org/r?r=274584&id=39706-8463490-3keIT6x&t=2 <http://www.moveon.org/r?r=274584&id=39706-8463490-3keIT6x&t=2>

Thanks!

–Michael Sherrard, Faithful America

The text above was written by Michael Sherrard, not by MoveOn staff, and MoveOn is not responsible for the content.

Rudolph Bowman Scott: Spokane Black Pioneer

Posted on April 19, 2012 by Robert Lloyd

Pat Bayonne-Johnson is photographed here visiting the gravesite of a Spokane Black pioneer – Rudolph Bowman Scott. He and his wife are buried at Fairmont Memorial Park. Read her article about all of this man’s accomplishments beginning with serving with the Union Army in the Civil War and including being the first Black man to hold a federal position in the northwest.

Pat is 4comculture’s in-house historian. She works with the Eastern Washington Genealogical Society and serves at the Spokane Public Library downtown on Tuesdays helping people find their roots.

Greetings From Pacific Lutheran University

Posted on February 28, 2012 by Robert Lloyd

Hello!
We are excited to offer this Chamber Music Theatre Work free to the public in celebration of African American Women in Women’s History Month. Please, will you spread the word through your network!
Thank you!
Melannie Denise Cunningham
Director of Multicultural Recruitment
Pacific Lutheran University
Tacoma, WA 98447
253-535-8716 or 1-800-274-6758
Go on our Virtual Tour:
http://video.realviewtv.com/education/plu/

Barbara Jordan born this day

Posted on February 21, 2012 by Diane Lloyd

Barbara Jordan, born February 21 1936, was one of the most respected and influential American politicians of the 20th century. She captured the attention and admiration of the nation with her intelligence and integrity, eloquent oratory, ardent defense of the Constitution, and staunch advocacy of equal rights for all American citizens.

This stamp was released as the 34th in the Black Heritage stamp series in September 2011.

In 1976 Barbara Jordan, a congressional representative from Texas, was the first African American and the first woman to be chosen to deliver the keynote speech to the Democratic Party National Convention. The Democratic Party today would do well to listen to this speech and reaffirm the principles that are the foundation of the party.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nDMX58A6vII

Jerrelene Williamson: African Americans in Spokane

Posted on February 19, 2012 by Robert Lloyd

BOOK SIGNING

Hope you were able to get out to Barnes and Noble in the Valley last Saturday to have your copy of African Americans in Spokane signed by Jerrelene Williamson and benefit the Martin Luther King Jr. Family Outreach Center with a percentage of your purchases. If you haven’t bought a copy yet, it is available for check out at the Spokane Public Library, Spokane County Library, Spokane Community College Library, Eastern Washington University Library, Whitworth University Library and Washington State University Library.

Patricia Stephens Due Dies

Posted on February 13, 2012 by Robert Lloyd

The New York Times

“Unsung Foot Soldiers.”

Patricia Stephens Due, whose belief that, as she put it, “ordinary people can do extraordinary things” propelled her to leadership in the civil rights movement — but at a price, including 49 days in a stark Florida jail — died on Tuesday in Smyrna, Ga. She was 72.

African-American Newspapers and Periodicals: Freedom’s Journal

Posted on February 10, 2012 by Robert Lloyd

Wisconsin Historical Society

Freedom’s Journal
OCLC#: 1570144
LC card #: sn83-30455
“We wish to plead our own cause.

Too long have others spoken for us.”
Thus declare Samuel Cornish and John B. Russwurm on the front page of Freedom’s Journal, the first African-American owned and operated newspaper published in the United States. The Journal was published weekly in New York City from 1827 to 1829. Samuel Cornish served as co-editor with John B. Russwurm between March 16, 1827 and September 14, 1827. Russwurm became sole editor of the Journal following the resignation of Cornish in September 1827. Freedom’s Journal was superseded by The Rights of All, published between 1829 and 1830 by S. E. Cornish. Learn more about history of the Journal and its editors on the PBS website. <http://www.pbs.org/blackpress/news_bios/newbios/nwsppr/freedom/freedom.html>
Freedom’s Journal provided international, national, and regional information on current events and contained editorials declaiming slavery, lynching, and other injustices. The Journal also published biographies of prominent African-Americans and listings of births, deaths, and marriages in the African-American New York community. Freedom’s Journal circulated in 11 states, the District of Columbia, Haiti, Europe, and Canada.
The newspaper employed subscription agents. One of these, David Walker, in 1829 published the first of four articles that called for rebellion. Walker’s Appeal <http://cgi.pbs.org/wgbh/aia/part4/4h2931t.html> stated that “.it is no more harm for you to kill the man who is trying to kill you than it is for you to take a drink of water,” this bold attack was widely read. Walker distributed copies of his pamphlet into the South, where it was widely banned.

For more information about African-American newspapers including lesson plans, interactive activities, a timeline, resources and biographies see the PBS website for the film The Black Press: Soldiers Without Swords

View Freedom’s Journal
All 103 issues of the Freedom’s Journal have been digitized and placed into Adobe Acrobat format. PLEASE NOTE: Each file is over 1 megabyte in size, refer to the file size information next to the link before clicking on the link.

The digital Freedom’s Journal was prepared by:
Peter Schroepfer – Student Assistant
Heather McCullough – Digital Librarian
Wendt Engineering Library

Reading Beyond the Requirements

Posted on February 8, 2012 by Robert Lloyd

Dr. James Burnley in a recent article for students exhorted them to go beyond what they were presented in classes: “…. go further and seek the truth about your history. Seeking such truth means that you will have to read beyond what you are required to read in most if not all of the degree programs you are seeking to attain.”

Burley discusses the work of Mamie & Kenneth Clark:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_RqsGTS5TPQ&feature=related

Full text of Dr. Burnley’s article:

Reading Beyond the Requirements or Learning to Love the Black Dolls

Ericka Huggins, Former Black Panther Party Leader, to Speak at Gonzaga

Posted on February 7, 2012 by Robert Lloyd

The Melding of Spiritual Activism and Social Justice is the title of a lecture to be given by Ericka Huggins on February 13 at 7 pm at Gonzaga University’s Jepson Wolff Auditorium. Ms Huggins is an “activist, poet, professor, and former Black Panther Party Leader and political prisoner”.

Bookfair Benefit for MLK Outreach Center 2 PM February 18

Posted on February 6, 2012 by Robert Lloyd

Support Jerrelene Williamson and the Martin Luther King Jr Family Outreach Center. Come to Jerrelene’s book signing at the Spokane Valley Barnes & Noble Bookfair. A percentage of every book bought at the bookfair or online using the bookfair ID 10692119 will go to benefit the MLK Outreach Center.

Barnes & Noble is located in the Market Pointe Shopping Center 15310 East Indiana Avenue.

Hi, all:

My mom, Jerrelene Williamson, will be signing her book “African Americans in Spokane” on Saturday, Feb. 18, at Barnes & Noble bookstore in the Spokane Valley. This time it is also a bookfair to benefit the Martin Luther King Center Jr. Family Outreach Center.

If you buy ANY book that day from B&N using the attached voucher in ANY store, or using the bookfair ID number online, the MLK Center will get a percentage of the proceeds.

If there’s a book you want to buy, now’s the time to support my mom and a good cause. Thanks a million!

Jennifer Roseman

Publisher’s Note: Jerrelene Williamson is the mother of Jennifer and Larry Roseman, all long-time contributors to the community.

Robert Lloyd Artist & Advocate

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Freedom’s Journal
OCLC#: 1570144
LC card #: sn83-30455
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For more information about African-American newspapers including lesson plans, interactive activities, a timeline, resources and biographies see the PBS website for the film The Black Press: Soldiers Without Swords

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“We wish to plead our own cause.

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