Civil rights: Women at the first March on Washington – a secretary, a future bishop and a marshal
ADELLE M BANKS, of Religion News Service, speaks with three women who were there in 1963…
Rev Al Sharpton, families of police shooting victims join march on Washington
RNS Preachers, politicians and family members of Black people who had been killed or shot by police gathered on the National Mall on the anniversary of the March on Washington. They called for new legislation to address racial inequities in the country. And they urged people to vote. People walk on Pennsylvania Avenue during the […]
March on Washington events to focus on racial justice, police brutality, voting
RNS Over the years, throngs of protesters – many of them people of faith – have assembled to remember the March on Washington. This year, the gatherings will both resemble and differ from the first one on 28th August, 1963. Martin Luther King, Jr, addresses a crowd from the steps of the Lincoln Memorial where […]
From civil rights to no nukes: A look at historic US protest photos
Recent days have seen clergy and faith leaders in the US join in protests against racism and police brutality in the wake of the death of George Floyd. Here are a photo essay depicting some of the protests of the past…
In the US, Rev Barber’s Poor People’s Campaign calls for resistance to reopening plans
RNS The Poor People’s Campaign, a grassroots group with branches in more than 40 US states, is urging resistance to or non-cooperation with state plans calling for the reopening of the economy just weeks after the coronavirus put most of the country on lockdown. In its new slogan, the campaign, co-chaired by two Christian ministers, […]