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Seeing the Lord’s ultimate healing power through experiences of pain and suffering.

What is the true meaning of trauma, and how does it impact our lives?

Sheila Wise Rowe on how we too can continue MLK’s legacy despite the pain and grief that comes from active resistance.

Adapted from Chapter One, “Wounds” For several decades Southern black folks carrying suitcases full of prized possessions fled poverty and threats of lynching to pursue the elusive dream of a better life in Northern cities like Boston. By the early 1960s, turbulence and race uprisings plagued much of the country yet bypassed Boston. The city had a self-congratulatory air because its predominantly African American community of Roxbury exercised restraint while other cities burned. Everything changed that humid day in June. I was seven years old at the time. That night in my aunt and uncle�...

This year was painful. That doesn’t mean we should forget it.