Lewis R. Gordon
By Lewis R. Gordon
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Opinion From generation to generation: King’s legacy endures in families’ movement stories
Several communities across the country are observing Martin Luther King Jr. Day with multigenerational activities, in which grandparents, parents and children reflect, and act, on the legacy of King’s work. The Forward asked three individuals from the Black Jewish community whose families had different experiences in the Civil Rights Movement to write about one of…
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Opinion Derek Chauvin trial: 3 questions America needs to ask about seeking racial justice in a court of law
The following op-ed first appeared in The Conversation. There is a difference between enforcing the law and being the law. The world is now witnessing another in a long history of struggles for racial justice in which this distinction may be ignored. Derek Chauvin, a 45-year-old white former Minneapolis police officer, is on trial for…
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