“And when there is the possibility of a storm…..”
March 18, 2019 | Dorothy SmithI will never forget the moment in my life over 25 years ago when I heard Dr. Bernice Johnson Reagon introduce the spiritual Wade in the Water. I knew she was speaking both literally and metaphorically. The power and truth in her words have had a lifelong effect on me: And when there is the possibility of a storm, if
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Bayard Rustin’s Ohio Connections
August 19, 2018 | Dorothy SmithBayard Rustin has several interesting connections to this area of Ohio. Rustin attended Wilberforce College in Wilberforce, Ohio, from 1932-1934 on a music scholarship. He sang tenor and traveled throughout the US with the acclaimed Wilberforce Quartet; Dr. Carl Hyde, retired physician, Quaker, age 90, resident of Friends Care Center in Yellow Springs, recounted how he, when a student at
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