Day 8: Thoughts from a Note Pad
By Stephanie Burton On May 6, I began a journey of self exploration. In ten short days (that’s the power of this trip), I learned to soak up information, to dissect it in agonizing detail and to...
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By Davy Knittle On Friday, Odessa Woolfolk, co-founder and president emerita of the Board of Directors of the Birmingham Civil Rights Institute spoke with us about the participation of women in the...
View ArticleDay 8: “Gay is the New Black”: Why This Is and Isn’t True
By Erica Shekell The 1961 Freedom Rides serve as a model and inspiration for other social justice movements. The LGBT (lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender) rights movement is one of these. It was a...
View ArticleDay 8: To Hope and Forgive
By Alicia Skeeter There have been two actions that I have been examining over the freedom ride: to hope and to forgive. Hope and forgiveness have been exposed to me in real and piercing ways over the...
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