by Wendell Griffen | Jan 11, 2023 | Opinion
Martin Luther King Jr. was murdered in Memphis, Tennessee, on April 4, 1968. He was born 39 years earlier, on January 15, 1929, in Atlanta, Georgia. Between those dates, King was a son, brother, schoolmate, student, moral philosopher, husband, father, activist, pastor...
by Wendell Griffen | Oct 6, 2022 | Opinion
The much boasted American “rule of law” is a sham. Notice how legislators across the nation, including Arkansas, rushed to pass laws to disenfranchise or undermine voting by Black people after Donald Trump was defeated in 2020. In Arkansas, white Republican...
by Wendell Griffen | Oct 5, 2022 | Opinion
The Supreme Court of the United States issued its ruling in the case of Moore v. Dempsey in 1923. By a 6–2 margin, the Court said that the trials of six of the Elaine 12 – Frank Moore, Frank and Ed Hicks, Joe Knox, Paul Hall and Ed Coleman – were dominated by mobs....
by Wendell Griffen | Aug 5, 2022 | Opinion
One out of every three people killed by police in the United States since 2015 were fleeing. In case you missed it, The Guardian published an article on July 28 with that statistic that you should read, ponder and share widely. “In the past seven years, police in...
by Wendell Griffen | Jul 12, 2022 | Christian Nationalism, Opinion
I’m saddened, but not surprised, to learn that, according to a Rolling Stone report, some of the justices have been involved with prayer meetings on the grounds of the Supreme Court with folks from Liberty Counsel. I consider that behavior inappropriate for a judge....