Author: Emma Sevitt

I want to share what was an incredibly moving and heartrending experience . It was per chance that I learned of the Service of Remembrance and Reconciliation th...

“Early morning, April four Shot rings out in the Memphis sky. Free at last, they took your life They could not take your pride.” -U2   So here ...

Elie Wiesel once said: “One thing we have learned is that when you face evil, don’t let it grow, fight it, right away. Had Hitler been fought immedi...

Indeed any discussion of the Civil Rights movement must include this formidable woman. She is in the center of the photo above, and it takes place on Johns Isla...

Charleston became the biggest slave port in America, selling about half the Africans bought into the American colonies. There were many marked and unmarked ante...

The drive from Atlanta through to the east coast of Georgia was long. We left far too late, after drinking delicious but overpriced coffee and avocado with poac...

It’s nearly impossible to be in Atlanta and not feel the ghosts of the civil rights movement — and for good reason. Atlanta is the home of the movement an...

Today I drove from Birmingham, Alabama to Atlanta, Georgia by myself. As I drove, I listened to Malcolm Gladwell’s Revisionist History podcast about the Civil R...

This blog post is probably the hardest to write so far. I am filled to the brim with ideas, thoughts, and frustrations. Writing a blog is harder than I thought,...

Today was spent in the Alabama capital of Montgomery, in many ways the most significant place in the Civil Rights Movement.  This is where activist Rosa Parks r...