Malachi Jones, the 17-year-old wunderkind who is heading to Columbia University this fall, has been awarded a Gold Medal Portfolio, the highest honor of the 2018 Scholastic Art & Writing Awards presented by the nonprofit Alliance for Young Artists & Writers. Source: Teen Wins Prestigious […]
Mourners embrace as they leave a wake for Stephon Clark at the Boss Church> on March 28, 2018 in Sacramento, California. Photo: Justin Sullivan (Getty Images) On March 18, two police officers in Sacramento, Calif., shot and killed 22-year-old Stephon Clark in the backyard of […]
A new documentary is exploring a period in Martin Luther King Jr.’s life that seldom gets attention: his final three years. “King in the Wilderness,” directed by Peter Kunhardt, highlights the acute struggle and opposition the civil rights icon faced when the energy from his […]
BY JESSE JACKSON April 4 will mark the 50th anniversary of the assassination of Dr. Martin Luther King, shot down on the balcony of the Lorraine Motel in Memphis, Tennessee. At the time, we had come to Memphis to support striking sanitation workers seeking a living wage […]
Screenshot: News24 (YouTube) In a landmark ruling, for what lawyers believe to be the first time ever in South Africa, a person has been sentenced to prison for verbal racial abuse. According to the Guardian, Vicki Momberg was sentenced to three years (with one year […]
Each semester I greet the students who file into my preaching class at Howard University with a standard talk. The talk is not an overview of the basics – techniques of sermon preparation or sermon delivery, as one might expect. Outlining the basics is not […]
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