Today’s Edition (Vol 2, No. 70) Painful progress. The week has been filled with angst, relief, and renewed disappointment over police shootings of unarmed Black citizens. Despite the tumult and grief, Joe Biden continues the hard work of governing a great nation. Before the weekend, let’s review just a few of the positive developments that never would have happened under the previous president.
As usual, your perspective is grounding and helpful. In addition to using your perspective to keep myself engaged instead of hiding, I take comfort from some of the iconic African Americans we know have dusted themselves off more times than we'll ever do. One that is relatively new to me is Anthony Ray Hinton author of the book _The Sun Does Shine_ His story is a wonderful though hair raising read: Anthony Ray Hinton
American activist
Description
DescriptionAnthony Ray Hinton is an American activist, writer, and author who was wrongly convicted of the 1985 murders of two fast food restaurant managers in Birmingham, Alabama. Hinton was sentenced to death and held on the state's death row for 28 years, and was later released in 2015. Wikipedia
Born: June 1, 1956 (age 64 years), Alabama
Parents: Buhlar Hinton
Books: The Sun Does Shine: How I Found Life and Freedom on Death Row (Oprah's Book Club Summer 2018 Selection)
Siblings: Elizabeth Hinton, Darlene Gardner
Nominations: NAACP Image Award for Outstanding Literary Work – Nonfiction
Another organization I'd recommend is https://www.activateamerica.vote/, formerly known as Flip the West. Their mission is to elect Democrats to the U.S. House and Senate. I've done postcarding through this organization.
Thank you, RH, for succinctly culminating some of the vital and positive things the Biden-Harris administration is doing. After the Trump administration’s daily horrors and crimes against humanity your edition today has provided a healing, soothing and hopeful respite from the GOP’s blatant transformation towards fascism.
As usual, your perspective is grounding and helpful. In addition to using your perspective to keep myself engaged instead of hiding, I take comfort from some of the iconic African Americans we know have dusted themselves off more times than we'll ever do. One that is relatively new to me is Anthony Ray Hinton author of the book _The Sun Does Shine_ His story is a wonderful though hair raising read: Anthony Ray Hinton
American activist
Description
DescriptionAnthony Ray Hinton is an American activist, writer, and author who was wrongly convicted of the 1985 murders of two fast food restaurant managers in Birmingham, Alabama. Hinton was sentenced to death and held on the state's death row for 28 years, and was later released in 2015. Wikipedia
Born: June 1, 1956 (age 64 years), Alabama
Parents: Buhlar Hinton
Books: The Sun Does Shine: How I Found Life and Freedom on Death Row (Oprah's Book Club Summer 2018 Selection)
Siblings: Elizabeth Hinton, Darlene Gardner
Nominations: NAACP Image Award for Outstanding Literary Work – Nonfiction
Release: April 3, 2015 wikipedia.org
Another organization I'd recommend is https://www.activateamerica.vote/, formerly known as Flip the West. Their mission is to elect Democrats to the U.S. House and Senate. I've done postcarding through this organization.
Thank you, RH, for succinctly culminating some of the vital and positive things the Biden-Harris administration is doing. After the Trump administration’s daily horrors and crimes against humanity your edition today has provided a healing, soothing and hopeful respite from the GOP’s blatant transformation towards fascism.