James Lawson’s Nonviolence Trainings I’ve been listening to the Reverend James Lawson’s lectures and training on Gandhian nonviolence, since those became the basis of…Continue reading “James Lawson’s Nonviolence Trainings”…
Pullman Porters I thought of James Alan McPherson, my favorite teacher at the Iowa Writers’ Workshop when I learned that Diane Nash’s…Continue reading “Pullman Porters”…
Which friends will be killed or injured? A student on the Notre Dame University panel that interviewed Diane Nash on January 20, 2020 asked her how being…Continue reading “Which friends will be killed or injured?”…
Managing Fear For the last two years, the same home health care aide has come every Friday afternoon to help me out.…Continue reading “Managing Fear”…
Truth, love and self-suffering http://crmvet.org “Learning Gandhi’s religion and philosophy was really important to me. Truth, love and self-suffering were the basis of his…Continue reading “Truth, love and self-suffering”…
Segregation After moving to Nashville in 1959 to attend Fisk University, Diane Nash experienced “horrible and dehumanizing” segregation for the first…Continue reading “Segregation”…
My goal is to honor Nash Last week, a friend on the east coast emailed this: “I’ve been working on a beer label for a friend’s…Continue reading “My goal is to honor Nash”…