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On our first evening in Warsaw, the guest speakers told us not to leave Poland sad. The weight of this journey holds pain and sadness, but the message was clear. […]
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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 […]
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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 […]
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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 […]
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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 […]
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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 […]
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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 […]
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Atlanta, Georgia & Montgomery, Alabama – It has been made clear that women were the backbone and at the forefront of the movement. Due to the times and circumstances of […]
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Beyond the Wall of Names: Evidence of a Life Lived I grew up surrounded by grandchildren of Holocaust survivors. I thought that was normal. Once I graduated high school, I […]
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Marching Down Freedom’s Road, Day 4 Each day we delve deeper into this history. We spent today in Selma, but on the way there, we stopped in Lowndes County, to […]
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