Bloody Sunday

I’m writing on the fiftieth anniversary of the Bloody Sunday Massacre in Derry, Northern Ireland. …

50 years ago, British soldiers opened fire on Irish protesters: It’s an old story of many times, many places — Originally published in The National Catholic Reporter in 2007 to mark the 35th anniversary of Bloody Sunday He should have died that day. His hands were in the air and an assault rifle was pointed directly at his head. Around him, people were so terrified that they were tripping out…

Ending this systemic racism, that is ingrained in the US police structure, is possible only by developing minds. The world occasionally witnesses racial violence and cruelties by the US police force, but quickly everything returns to normal, and no serious action is taken to fight such racial acts. …

In Selma, Alabama in 1965, civil rights activists were brutally beaten by police officers while they marched peacefully from Selma to Montgomery in protest against the racist voter suppression perpetuated by the state of Alabama and beyond. …

On this anniversary of Bloody Sunday in Selma, can we finally move forward with renaming the Edmund Pettus Bridge after John Lewis? This is first anniversary without him. Since he can no longer step across the bridge, we should name every step of it after him. Here’s why: There on…

After a week of hearing America’s extreme right wing direct a bizarre, ill-thought, and misdirected outrage against private companies that have merely sought to distance themselves from racism, I was glad to at least have some hard-fought freedoms and positive developments to think about today. First of all, today is…

Reverend Cassandra Roegner revisits her article written May 17, 2015. This is not a critique of the film. She writes candidly about the impact the March on Selma also known as Bloody Sunday and the film Selma had on her life. Addressing America’s continued denial and unwillingness to deal with its brutal…

According to the Southern Poverty Law Center, the Nation of Islam is as big a terrorist threat as any white nationalist group in America. Though the Nation does spew rhetoric that many Americans disagree with (and rightfully so), does being offended constitute an act of terror? While we may not…

I spent three years of my childhood living in Columbia, South Carolina, where 160 years ago this fall, the confederacy was born in the town of Abeville on Secession Hill. Even as an eleven-year-old with a rudimentary understanding of political context, I could sense the racial segregation in South Carolina…