By Marsha Joyner
Did Martin die in vain on that fateful day of April 4, 1968? What has transpired in these 40 years with respect to King’s dream? There are several events in the Bible where the number 40 is of paramount importance—can any of them be related to our struggles these past 40 years? Rain […]
Last year, Marsha Joyner wrote a guest post on Watch Night Services in African American communities. For the last two weeks, in the approach to New Years, her post has been drawing search engine traffic every day. Here are the opening paragraphs.
Those of us who grew up in America’s traditional Black communities know […]
By Marsha Rose Joyner
For: Linda
From: MarshaRose
“Child of pure unclouded brow
And dreaming eyes of wonder!
Though time be fleet, and I and thou
Are half a life asunder,
Thy loving smile will surely hail
The love gift of a fairy tale”.
by Lewis Carroll
Time and distance dims memories!
And we all edit our thoughts.
As the White Queen said, “What good is a […]
By Marsha Joyner
December 2005
Those of us who grew up in America’s traditional Black communities know of Watch Night Services, the gathering of the faithful in church on New Year’s Eve. So as I ventured into the world it came as a surprise to me that other than the Catholic Church, which celebrates the eve […]
By Marsha Joyner
Former President of the Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Coalition-Hawaii, Marsha Joyner, has name inscribed on the “Wall of Tolerance” at the Civil Rights Memorial in Montgomery, Alabama
10-2005
We came in road-weary VW Buses, with backpacks and sleeping bags, willing to sleep on any floor, withstand certain adversity, every abuse and encounter death, to […]
(Via Marsha Joyner.)
Ted Poston, “They Are No Longer Afraid.” The New York Post
June 19, 1956.
You’d been living with [the bus boycott] daily for nearly three weeks in Montgomery, but you couldn’t quite put your finger on it. Only through the words of others were you finally able to articulate a feeling, which had been with […]
by Marsha Joyner
With silent lips she cries. “Give me your tired, your poor,
Your huddled masses yearning to breathe free,
The wretched refuse of your teeming shore.
Send these, the homeless, tempest-tossed to me.
I lift my lamp beside the golden door!”
This is etched in stone on the Statue of Liberty—as Lady Liberty looks out to the Atlantic […]
By Marsha Joyner
New Orleans, the city of romantic myths and memorable music, Gulfport, Pass Christian, little towns and villages whose names only appear on a AAA map are “Deja vous all over again”. If you will remember in Victor Hugo’s Les Misérables, he had to come to grips with the social problems of the day, […]
Marsha has an op-ed in today’s Honolulu Advertiser:
The biggest impediment to voting is not the Ku Klux Klan or the White Citizens Council or economic sanctions; it is apathy. The two biggest sources of apathy are oppression and privilege. Privilege enables people to vote their pocketbook, and oppressed people feel there is nothing for which […]
[This is from my friend Marsha Joyner, who produced the TV series. I carried something else by her yesterday. –BG]
“All life on Earth has been touched by the event, which took place here.”
The official Trinity Site proclaims
For we are all Downwind
Atomic Bomb Series on ‘Olelo Channel 53 (Hawaii)
Sixty years ago on July 16, 1945, the […]
By Marsha Rose Joyner
Aloha,
On August 6th we will celebrate the 40th anniversary of the signing by Lyndon B. Johnson of the Voting Rights Act of 1965. And of course, our own, the late Congresswoman Patsy T. Mink was instrumental in is formation and passage.
Almost one hundred years after the 15th amendment to the U.S. Constitution […]
Folks I've got them hungry blues
And nothin' in this to lose
People tellin' me to choose
Between dyin' and lyin' and
keep on cryin'
Tired of them hungry blues
Listen ain't you heard the news
There's another thing to choose
A brand new world
clean and fine
Where nobody's hungry
And there's no color line
A thing like that's worth
anybody dyin'
I ain't got a thing to lose
But them doggone hungry blues
2008 Benjamin T. Greenberg
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