In 1998, a school shooting happened at Westside Middle School in Jonesboro, Arkansas. A teacher and four students were killed by their classmates. In response, Ferncliff, a PC(USA) camp and conference center, reached out to partner with their community and provide a camp experience for the students to reflect and begin healing. It was such a helpful experience attendees asked to have the camp again and again. They even invited other students...
Mamie Till-Mobley as a teacher in the movement to end gun violence
When 14-year-old Emmett Till was murdered, his mother Mamie boldly decided to publish pictures of his brutalized body, revealing the violence of racism to the nation. In the campaign to end gun violence, what can we learn from her courage and creativity, writes Jeremy Wilhelmi?
Till-Mobley during an interview outside the courthouse after Roy Bryant and J.W. Milam were acquitted for the murder of her son Emmett Till, September 23, 1955. Photo courtesy of Wikipedia Commons.
