activism
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Every year in January, we celebrate one of history’s greatest leaders, Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., and his dream of racial and social justice. But he had to grow into his leadership. And his relationships were critical to this. Of course this is true. But in our American culture of radical individuality, we can fall…
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Fifteen years ago, I opened up my newspaper to read that the great civil rights hero Rosa Parks had died. “Until December 1955,” went the tribute in that newspaper, “a soft-spoken department store seamstress could not have imagined being placed at the forefront of any movement. Rosa Parks, who died Monday at age 92, was…