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Traci Blackmon: If These Walls Could Talk

By Traci Blackmon — 2019

The Rev. Traci Blackmon, Associate General Minister of Justice and Local Church Ministries United Church of Christ, marks the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. holiday by calling for the building of bridges, not walls—indicating there is no wall strong enough, high enough or entrenched enough to stop those who seek freedom. She offered this address at the St. Louis History Museum.

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“Let Freedom Ring Wherever the People’s Rights Are Trampled Upon”: What We Can Learn from Nelson Mandela Today

Nelson Mandela was by nature an optimist, but he was as hard-headed as they come. He did not embrace the consoling view of history that, as Martin Luther King said (in a line often quoted by Barack Obama), “the arc of the moral universe is long, but it bends toward justice.

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