by Charlie Palladino | May 28, 2021 | Uncategorized
At the voting rights event Justice Revival hosted recently, Rev. Alvin Herring of Faith in Action shared a personal account of how America’s history of racist voter suppression has affected him and his family. He described how his father, born in Alabama in 1922, did...
by Allyson McKinney Timm | Apr 22, 2021 | Uncategorized
For many Americans, the conversation around women’s equality often focuses on historical efforts and achievements. Many Americans to this day, however, do not realize that the United States Constitution fails to fully include equal rights and protections for women,...
by Allyson McKinney Timm | Dec 10, 2020 | Human Rights
Let’s Be Honest, America: Human Rights Are Still On the Line For the last four years the United States has suffered a presidential administration truly extraordinary in its disregard for civil and human rights. As this wearying year draws to a close and Human Rights...
by Allyson McKinney Timm | Nov 30, 2020 | Book Review, Human Rights
A Review of Who Stole My Bible: Reclaiming Scripture as a Handbook for Resisting Tyranny by the Rev. Jennifer Butler For those of us who grew up in mostly white Christian churches in the United States—part of a privileged, dominant racial and religious majority, in a...
by Erin Grayson | Sep 10, 2020 | Human Rights
While protesters spilled onto the Seattle streets in a dramatic display of anger, frustration, and grief in the aftermath of the killing of George Floyd, a group of Christians on Bainbridge Island, Washington came together to express similar emotions. We lamented the...
by Charlie Palladino | Jul 24, 2020 | Human Rights
COVID-19 and the Urgent Necessity of the Human Right to Housing A Crisis on Top of a Crisis As the coronavirus pandemic persists, so too does the increasing cultural awareness of myriad inequities in American life. The pandemic did not create these interrelated...
by Allyson McKinney Timm | Jul 7, 2020 | Human Rights
Last Wednesday, Justice Revival and Union Theological Seminary in New York City joined a diverse coalition of over fifty civil society groups that signed a “friend of the court” brief in support of the Equal Rights Amendment. Winston & Strawn, LLP filed the amicus...
by Allyson McKinney Timm | Jul 2, 2020 | Human Rights
Prosecuting Ahmaud Arbery’s Killers And Facing Down Legal Threats to Black Lives Last Wednesday, a grand jury indicted the three Georgia men who harassed, chased down, and killed Ahmaud Arbery in broad daylight. Each of the defendants was indicted on nine counts, the...
by Allyson McKinney Timm | Jun 19, 2020 | Human Rights
The Brother of George Floyd Offers Historic Testimony before Global Human Rights Body On Wednesday, three weeks after the killing of George Floyd, his brother riveted the United Nations Human Rights Council with resounding testimony about the grief and anger the...
by Allyson McKinney Timm | May 29, 2020 | Human Rights
George Floyd’s death at the hands of Minneapolis police—the cruel, unjustified killing of yet another Black man by White officers charged to protect and serve—is a mournful window into America’s shameful human rights crisis. If the inherent right to life venerated in...
