Poetry for Building Community, Reader, Sabbath: Time for the Unexpected “Joy is the Justice We Give Ourselves” Liberation and justice for all includes for ourselves. It includes experiencing pleasure, belonging, peace, and joy. Poet and professor at Clemson University, J. Drew Lanham, paints a beautiful landscape of…
Poetry for Building Community, Sabbath: Time for the Unexpected, Significance Of Place “There Are Birds Here” This poem by Jaamal May creates a fascinating unease in the body as it allows two visions of a city to collide together into one intense poem. It's an opportunity…
Leaving Egypt and Pharaoh, Reader, Sabbath: Time for the Unexpected, Significance Of Place Place Plays a Part This week, Common Good's Reader Curation Team found several pieces that commented on the roll of place in our collective story. Place nourishes us, it reminds us of our history,…
Leaving Egypt and Pharaoh, Poetry for Building Community, Reader, Sabbath: Time for the Unexpected “We Rose” On Saturday, Black Americans all over the world will celebrate Juneteenth, the day when the news of Emancipation reached those who still toiled two months after Confederates were defeated in…
Reader, Sabbath: Time for the Unexpected, Significance Of Place, Structure Of Belonging “Love, Peace, and SOOOOOUUUL!” "At his core, Don Cornelius was a journalist who was driven to journalism by a desire to cover the civil rights movement, with an understanding that the movement was inextricably…
