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Sermon of the Week: Something Beautiful (p3)
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Robert Gelinas
The Sankofa Institute Online: Uncommon Vision
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Robert Gelinas
John Howard Griffin is one of my heroes. He’s the white man who took the amazing journey of living as a black man in the Deep South in the late 1950’s. Ultimately, he recorded his saga in a book, Black Like Me. He drew his title from the closing lines of a poem called, “Dream…
One Name, Two Fates (P2)–A Tale of Two Michaels
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Robert Gelinas
In a previous post I wrote about, The Other Wes Moore, the story of two men with the same name and similar backgrounds yet vastly different destinies. Recently, the Rev. Leon Kelly stopped by The Sankofa Institute for a conversation. He spoke us about A Tale of Two Michaels: Michael Hancock and Michael Asberry. Recently The…
One Name, Two Fates (p1)–The Other Wes Moore
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Robert Gelinas
Not long ago I read, The Other Wes Moore: One Name, Two Fates. Wes Moore grew up poor, fatherless and in a drug decayed neighborhood. So did the other Wes Moore. Wes Moore became a paratrooper, decorated veteran, Rhodes Scholar and White House Fellow. He even spoke at the Democratic national convention hours before Barack…
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