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Andrew Aydin, the creator and co-author of the graphic novel memoir series MARCH, spoke to Georgia Highlands College (GHC) students on Tuesday, Jan. 12, during a virtual event. The National Book Award winning story focuses on the real-life experiences of late U.S Congressman John Lewis.
Aydin s trilogy showcases the civil rights movement and is told from the perspective of Lewis. The congressman is best known for his chairmanship of the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC) and for leading the march that was halted by police violence on the Edmund Pettus Bridge in Selma, Alabama, in 1965, a landmark event in the history of the civil rights movement that became known as Bloody Sunday.
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For over two decades, Emma Jones has committed to three practices: every Monday she sits where her son Malik Jones was shot and killed by police. On the fourteenth of every month she engages in an action in support of a victim of police violence, and every year she holds an event on the anniversary of Malik’s murder.
Everything changed for the Jones family on April 14, 1997, when 21-year-old Malik Jones was brutally gunned down by East Haven, Conn., police officer Robert Flodquist. “I said very clearly when Malik was murdered, that but for racial profiling, Malik would be alive today,” Jones said in a conversation with
A Sunday service at NorthStar in Durham.
“There’s a New World Coming” is a song the great Georgia-born singer Bernice Johnson Reagon recorded in 1975. In the early 1960s, Reagon was a founding member of the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee’s Freedom Singers, and in 1973 she started Sweet Honey in the Rock, a celebrated Black female a cappella group. But in “There’s a New World Coming,” which appears on her album
Give Your Hands to Struggle, Reagon sings alone: “There’s a new day coming! / Everything’s gon’ be turning over / Everything’s gon’ be turning over / Where you gon’ be standing when it comes?”
Auburn's Black Student Union and Alternative Student Breaks gathered together on Monday to honor Martin Luther King Jr. through community service and remembrance of the 1960s civil rights movement.