On Sunday, April 23, at 3 p.m., the SSJ Sister Karen Klimczak Center for Nonviolence will present “Moving BEYOND White Fragility” with Nanette D. Massey at SS. Columba-Brigid Parish, 75 Hickory St., Buffalo. A reception will follow. Massey is a local author, activist and educator on how to navigate conversations about race with confidence, humor […]
Jesus was totally nonviolent. Any serious contextual reading of the Gospel reveals Jesus courageously, prophetically proclaiming the Kingdom of God – often amidst hostile opposition – while never resorting to violence. “But to you who hear,” said Jesus, “love your enemies, do good to those who hate you, bless those who curse you, pray for […]
The SSJ Sister Karen Klimczak Center for Nonviolence will host Cariol Horne and HERSTORY: The Cost of Nonviolence at SS. Columba-Brigid Church, 75 Hickory St., Buffalo, on April 24, at 3 p.m. Horne made headlines when, in 2006, she was fired from her role as a Buffalo police officer after she stopped another officer from […]
As I write, it is the U.S. holiday commemorating the great civil and human rights leader Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. On the evening of April 4, 1968, after preaching and being present in solidarity with poorly paid African American sanitation workers, King, while standing on the balcony of the Lorraine Motel in Memphis, Tennessee, […]
Larry Kennedy King (from left), Rev. Vivian Waltz and Rev. Dr. Frederick A. Gelsey Sr. will record presentations for a Zoom event for the SSJ Sister Karen Klimczak Center for Nonviolenece. Thanks to Zoom and Facebook, the SSJ Sister Karen Klimczak Center for Nonviolence will celebrate its 13th Annual Event Sunday, April 18, at 3 […]
Race riots and civil unrest date back to Nat Turner’s Slave Rebellion in 1931. Buffalo was the spot of one of 159 riots that swept cities during the “Long Hot Summer of 1967,” when a group of African-American teens, frustrated by mistreatment by white government and police forces, broke car and store windows through William […]
