Posts made in February, 2021

(reported from Covenant, by Carrie Boren Headington) Americans are fed up, searching, and drifting: fed up with church or their perception of church, searching for spiritual moorings, yet adrift in a sea of secular offerings of peace, purpose, and happiness. As Christians, we know that we hold the good news of Jesus, who is the way, the truth, and the life that the whole world needs. We know that humanity is “restless,” as St....

Women’s History Month is a celebration of the contribution of women to history, culture and society. It has been observed annually in the month of March in the United States since 1987. Women’s History Month 2021 will take place from Monday, March 1-Wednesday, March 31, 2021.  The actual celebration of  Women’s History Month grew out of a week-long celebration of women’s contributions organized by the Sonoma, California school...

(from here) Take a self-guided Walking Tour of the African American History of Pasadena. Audio descriptions of the sites visited are available by scanning this code with your cell phone: Or by visiting the link above. Originally conceived by the NAACP Pasadena Branch as a bus tour, this version, as a self-guided walking tour, was co-created by the Pasadena Complete Streets Coalition (PasCSC) and the NAACP for “Walktober 2020.” ...

(reposted from History.com) By 1900, the unwritten color line barring Black players from white teams in professional baseball was strictly enforced. Jackie Robinson, a sharecropper’s son from Georgia, joined the Kansas City Monarchs of the Negro American League in 1945 after a stint in the U.S. Army (he earned an honorable discharge after facing a court-martial for refusing to move to the back of a segregated bus). His play caught the...

reposting from https://www.history.com/topics/black-history/black-history-month Since 1976, every American president has designated February as Black History Month and endorsed a specific theme.The Black History Month 2021 theme, “Black Family: Representation, Identity and Diversity” explores the African diaspora, and the spread of Black families across the United States. READ MORE: Black History Milestones (from ASALH) The black...