Pastors Ben Atherton-Zeman and Andy Oliver protested the state of Florida’s attempts to erase a “Black History Matters” asphalt mural outside the Woodson African American Museum in St. Petersburg. Florida governor Ron DeSantis had ordered a crew to remove the mural as “non-standard road art.”
Lynn Feinerman is the producer of Women Rising Radio, which she describes this way: Women Rising Radio project had its first broadcast in 2003, profiling visionary women in leadership across the globe for all the critical issues of today, including human rights, democracy and civil society, ecology and sustainability, and all the freedoms. Based in California, we’ve been syndicated on over 200 radio stations in the USA, and in …
Dan Shore is an opera composer and the author of Freedom Ride, an opera set in New Orleans in 1961. The opera tells a story of the Freedom Riders, young civil rights activists who risked their lives to desegregate interstate travel. The opera premiered in February 2020 with Chicago Opera Theater, directed by Tazewell Thompson, conducted by Lidiya Yankovskaya, and starring soprano Dara Rahming. The opera was inspired by …
Jess Fisher is a graphic designer and liturgical artist. She served for a time as Digital Minister at the Washington D.C. Presbyterian Church of the Pilgrims, which introduces its website with the title “Where all are pilgrims, but none is a stranger.” The church, under the leadership of Rev. Erin Counihan, has joined with the Washington Interfaith Staff Community in organizing “Faithful Witness Wednesdays,” weekly vigils at the Capitol “call[ing] on Congress to …
