Erica Smiley on the Power of Collective Action - The Rockefeller Foundation
"When someone's really coming at you, instead of being scared, know that what it means is" whatever you're doing is working."
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"When someone's really coming at you, instead of being scared, know that what it means is" whatever you're doing is working."
Part two in an occasional series on the past, present and future of West Southern Pines.
Ilyon Woo's new book, "Master Slave Husband Wife," tells the story of William and Ellen Craft, an enslaved couple that fled Macon, Georgia and traveled all the way to freedom in Philadelphia. The Crafts made their journey on public trains, with Ellen disguised as a rich, white man afflicted with rheumatism.
The letter “Don’t judge Robert E. Lee by 2022 standards” (Dec. 31, TribLIVE) urges us recognize that Robert E. Lee was a patriotic Virginian who only objected to the use of federal forces to solve the question of slavery. He came to that opinion fashionably late. The 1850 Fugitive Slave
Democrats tried to pass a bill to prevent anyone from restricting inter-state travel for the purpose of reproductive health care. The GOP had other ideas.