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'Long Live the Dream' celebrates King's legacy
Written: 3/26/2008
A booklet of reflections on Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.'s life and legacy prepared by the Mississippi Conference is now available. The conference Commission on Religion and Race proposed the book as a way to mark the 40th anniversary of King's death. He was assassinated April 4, 1968, in Memph...

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Artist's project honors civil rights icons
Written: 2/19/2008
By John GordonUnited Methodist News Service   HARWICH PORT, Mass. — When artist Pamela Chatterton-Purdy began working on her latest project depicting heroes of the U.S. Civil Rights Movement, she drew on her own experiences — beginning as a civil rights activist herself in the 1960s.   ...

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Remembering Twick Morrison: 'Her faith defined her'
Written: 2/8/2008
Martha Cooper "Twick" Morrison, 76, a champion of racial justice and reconciliation in Mississippi and across The United Methodist Church, died Feb. 7 at home in Vicksburg following a 20-month battle with cancer. "My wife was a remarkable woman who was loved dearly by her family," said Robert Morri...

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Share reflections on King's impact
Written: 2/6/2008
By Rev. Fitzgerald LovettConference Staff April 4 will be the 40th anniversary of the assassination of the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. This will be a time of reflection for us individually and as a nation. Forty years later, what are the changes?  Has this nation realized that all men are...

Journey visits Laurel March 22
Written: 3/12/2007
The focus of the next Journey Toward the Light on Thursday, March 22, will be on Laurel and Jones County during the birth and height of the civil rights era. Conversation will focus on three questions: Where were we? Where are we now? Where do we need to go? Expected to participate are Laurel Mayo...

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Spend 40 days pondering 40 years
Written: 2/21/2007
“What is done is done forever. I know that. I’m saying that the ones who have been here have been the way they were, and the ones of us who are here now are the way we are and to know that is the only chance we’ve got, dead and living, to be here together.” - Wendell Berry, “The Wild Birds” By Gwen...

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Actor, writer Mike Wiley to present one-man play 'Dar He'
Written: 1/25/2007
More than 50 years after the murder of Emmett Till, Mike Wiley will bring Till and a dozen other characters to life in his one-man play, “Dar He: The Lynching of Emmett Till.” The Mississippi premiere of “Dar He” is Feb. 3-4. Performances are set for Saturday, Feb. 3, at 3 p.m. at Trinity United M...

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CLC seeks to put faces on stories involving racism
Written: 1/16/2007
By Woody Woodrick Advocate Editor Hardly any adult in Mississippi hasn’t read about the state of race relations in the state. But reading about it and hearing it first hand are different.   “When you have people talk about their experiences with racism it’s not just words,” said the Rev. St...