Posts tagged with: diversity

Raise your hands. How many people learned about Lincoln’s Gettysburg Address when you were in school? Do you remember how it ends?...
Reverend Traci Blackmon (Executive Minister of Justice, UCC) tells a story about an historic, white Methodist church whose members decided to welcome people of African descent. This happened around 1850....
I love to tell the story of my Scottish grandfather, Daniel. At the age of seven, Daniel became an indentured servant. It was a common arrangement in the 1800’s among European families like Daniel’s: dirt poor, unable to feed four...