Tag Archives: Civil Disobedience

The Cry of the Poor: Cracking White Male Supremacy (Part 14) More Love in Action: What Can We Do?

  Hospitality, vol. 29. no.1   Editor’s note: This is the fourteenth in a series of articles based on a lecture Eduard gave at Stetson University as part of the Howard Thurman Lecture Series.   Last month we discussed two answers to the question “What can we do?” We invited folk to find or create [...]

On The Street One More Time Again

    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 [...]

Going to Golgotha

Hospitality April, 2002 Vol. 21, no.4   Murphy is asleep.  I am writing to you, Beloved Friend of God.  We are in the Guy Mason Park in the Georgetown section of the District of Columbia.  We arrived this morning after a fourteen-hour train trip, only to learn that we cannot get into our hotel room [...]

Who Killed S.A. Williams? A Fragment

  Hospitality vol. 18, no. 11     One: Fragments Found The Cry For Help   “Who killed Cock Robin? ‘I,’ said the sparrow, ‘With my little bow and arrow, I killed Cock Robin.’   Who saw him die? ‘I,’ said the fly, ‘With my little eye, I saw him die.’   Who’ll make his [...]

BASEMENT TAPES: ONE

  Hospitality Vol.16, no.9   1   In a few hours many of us from The Door will be heading over to the Butler C.M.E. Church for the funeral of Charlie Young, Sr.  He is a former resident and we continued a good and strong relationship after he moved out of the community and into [...]

I See Mordecai Weeping in Woodruff Park. How Can We Make Him Laugh?

Hospitality vol. 16, no. 6     A good Friday it was when Gladys fell in the Conasauga River.  She was crossing at a point where the cold water rushes and sings among the boulders, and it is deep.  I had gone before her and the rhododendron limb held me fine.  Was it because she [...]

FOLLOWING JESUS: CLAMORING FOR PUBLIC TOILETS

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. [...]