I thought I was prepared. This encompasses so much I thought I was prepared to travel. It’s been years since I’ve been on a plane but I haven’t been on a long flight since I was 18 years old. It was a…
Today was my first full day in Poland. To say the least . . . it was powerful. Before I get into what we did, I just want to say the highlight of my trip was to get to meet Howard Chandler….
At the beginning of this trip I did an interview with KDKA in which I was asked “What are you hoping to get out of this trip?” My response was, “I hope to get the answer(s) to move our country forward in…
As we head home, I cannot help but to reflect on the amazing week this has been. It has been a time of sharing, learning, and support. At the start of the week, I felt a bit overwhelmed and unsure if I could…
As we are coming to the end of our journey, I have been reflecting on the title for this seminar: Marching Down Freedom’s Road. It is now up to us to continue the March in our classrooms, our cities, and among our…
Fun fact: I have never written a blog before! Well, I wrote one the other night, so a more truthful statement would be: I had not written a blog until participating in Marching Down Freedom’s Road. Ironically, for the IB French and Spanish…
The Legacy Museum begins in the seasick-all of nowhere land, the Atlantic Ocean. Atlas (the World Carrier). It begins with a seemingly endless place without land — water, a symbol — immense. In the hull of a slave ship, what could a…
I must say I have enjoyed this tour immensely. In all my many years in the workforce, I have never met a group so dedicated to their profession.Although there was a lot of information, the knowledge I gained during the tour has…
Day Five of our tour and we visited Kelly Ingram Park in Birmingham, Alabama. The park occupies a central location in the city’s civil rights history. It sits across the street from the Birmingham Civil Rights Institute. Nearby the park is 16th…
The Civil Rights movement of the 1950s and 1960s in the United States was a time of intense activism, bravery, and a collective fight for justice and equality. Among the various tools and strategies employed by the activists, music emerged as a…
Truth Telling & America’s History of Racial Injustices Day five of our journey began with an emotional tour of the Equal Justice Initiative (EJI) Legacy Museum in Montgomery, Alabama, where we learned about African-American history from Enslavement to Mass Incarceration. The museum…
I have wanted to visit the Memorial for Peace and Justice ever since I attended a presentation by Bryan Stevenson in Pittsburgh five years ago. But unfortunately, I thought, there were two other scheduled visits prior to visiting the Memorial. If I…