Susan Burton of A New Way of Life in Los Angeles and Daryl Atkinson of the Southern Coalition for Social Justice finally got their turn to cross the Edmund Pettus Bridge — twice. Burton’s dispatch: There are just thousands and thousands and thousands of people, as far as the eye can see, people lined up […]
Formerly Incarcerated Leaders Have Historic Meeting with Federal Interagency Reentry Council
The civil rights movement had the Big Six – Martin Luther King, Jr., Ralph Abernathy, Whitney Young, and other visionaries – advocating for the end of discriminatory treatment toward black and brown people. On Monday, October 20th we saw the emergence of the Big Eight – formerly incarcerated leaders at the forefront of a new civil […]