THIS IS NOTHING MORE THAN THE TRUTH.. THIS COMING NOVEMBER 2012
PEOPLE BETTER WAKE UP (TURN OFF THEIR IPOD,IPAD, MAC, IPHONE
AND TUNE IN TO REALITY. DON’T FOCUS ON THE MESSENGER, BUT THE MESSAGE
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Archbishop Desmond Tutu: Gonzaga University graduates deserve the honor of hearing him.
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
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
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
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.
Jerrelene Williamson: African Americans in Spokane
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
“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
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
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Reading Beyond the Requirements
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
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”.
