The sky is so gray with smoke sunrise doesn’t wake me. Western wildfires in June are predictable, but with climate change they seem more frequent — and larger. The smoke this Thursday morning, June 18, 2020, obscured the Sandia Mountains to the south and Indian Country mesas to the west. I could barely make out …
“I am ashamed — ashamed for myself and for the church — that we have not been here sooner.” That was Monsignor David Cantwell of the Catholic Interracial Council of Chicago speaking to my father at the end of the five-day civil rights march from Selma to Montgomery in March 1965, led by the Rev. …
I was inserting this below but wanted it to stand alone. I choke up every time I read it, thinking of the civil rights movement and my late father. And maybe newspapers, too. San Francisco Chronicle, March 26, 1965 25,000 Cry ‘Freedom’” By Bob Robertson, Chronicle Correspondent, Montgomery, Ala. — More than 25,000 American Negroes …
