Yesterday, Rev. Murphy Davis and I were in Milledgeville, Georgia, on our monthly prison trip. We transport families, lovers and friends to visit those locked away. Through the center of the city, the old Confederate capital of slaveholding Georgia, marched a band of deformed white people. They were celebrating the birthday of one of their [...]
Hospitality, Vol. 28, No. 5, Editor’s note: This is the ninth in a series of articles based on a lecture Eduard gave at Stetson University as part of the Howard Thurman Lecture Series. In Atlanta, it is against the law to ask for help. One can go to jail for asking for [...]
Hospitality vol. 28, no. 3, Editor’s note: This is the seventh in a series of articles based on a lecture Eduard gave at Stetson University as part of the Howard Thurman Lecture Series. Place: The Open Door Community front yard. Former Creek Nation land. Former territory of the Confederate States of America. Today, [...]
Hospitality, August 2007, Vol. 26, No. 7 Blessed are those who hunger and thirst for LovingJustice They shall be satisfied. Jesus, The Human One Pastor Loring, Pastor Loring, There is a Famine in the Land. Sister Durant, 1976 Give us this day our daily bread. Jesus the Jew There is no such thing as [...]
Hospitality, Vol. 25, No. 4 Dedicated to Elizabeth Omilami, my friend and a leader in The Movement to Redeem the Soul of Atlanta and Hosea Feed the Hungry. I am from a slaveholding family. We owned Black African human beings in Orangeburg County, SC. My ancestors fought in the Civil War to [...]
Hospitality, Vol. 24, No. 6 White suburbanites exhausted from long hours in ever larger, 120-mile-per-hour cars and SUVs that barely move fifteen miles an hour on the long polluted unfree freeways head back to frozen zones of gated compounds filled with fences. Ennui slips slowly around the barbeque grills like mist over [...]
Hospitality, Vol. 24, No. 5 Let us go then you and I, ……… Through half-deserted streets, The muttering retreats Of restless nights in one-night cheap hotels And sawdust restaurants with oyster shells: Streets that follow like a tedious argument Of insidious intent To lead you to an overwhelming question… Oh, do not [...]
September 1, 2003 – 3:24 pm
Hospitality, vol. 22, no. 9 (Editor’s note: A version of the following article ran as an Op-Ed piece in The Atlanta Journal-Constitution, August 7, 2003. We hope you will join us in Woodruff Park for the Festival of Shelters, September 24-26. Look on pages 4-5 for more articles and photos about the Open Door’s [...]
Hospitality, July 2003, vol. 22, no. 7 One Ignatius Wallace is a friend of mine. We’ve been members of Concerned Black Clergy for more than the past decade. Last week, this Black man leaned against the wall at our MARTA Five Points train station. The Police were quickly at his side, [...]
August 1, 1996 – 10:23 pm
Hospitality vol. 15, no. 8 On Monday, June 17, 1996, forty of us went to City Hall to stage a demonstration. We called on the Mayor and City Council to build permanent public toilets for the citizens of Atlanta. We began with 10 of us sitting on old toilets in front of City Hall. [...]
