Tag: Bryan Stevenson

It’s About The Bus

Rosa Park refused to move to the back of the bus. She hoped others would follow her example. And WOW, did they!! She made good trouble! The black community boycotted the buses for 381 days (12/5/55 to 12/20/56). They walked…

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Our Legacy

Wisdom On our walk to the Ravello restaurant the previous evening, we saw this Maya Angelou quote on the side of a building. The next morning as we approached the Legacy Museum, we found this same quote on the back…

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Reposting: Preparation

Diana and I had been talking about taking a Civil Rights tour of Selma and Montgomery, Alabama for several years. She knew it was on my bucket list. She made it possible by sandwiching the trip between visits with her…

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Shifting Narratives

A couple of weeks ago I joined some members of the local chapter of the League of Women Voters for a presentation sponsored by the Diversity Office of Sinclair Community College. We listened to a conversation between Jon Stewart and…

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