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May 12 2016 | Posted In: Clayborne Carson, King Institute, Liberation Curriculum
On Saturday, May 7, the King Institute hosted teachers from around the Bay Area for the Liberation Curriculum workshop "Looking Back and Looking Forward - Making Our Students Global Citizens." Facilitated by Risha Krishna, the Institute’s Curriculum Support Specialist, the workshop demonstrated how...
May 11 2016 | Posted In: Clayborne Carson, King Institute
The Peace+Justice Studies Initiative (PJSI) at Stanford, in collaboration with the King Institute, recently held the conference "Ways to Justice: Perspectives on Nonviolence, Civil Resistance, and Self Defense" on May 6-8. The conference brought together prominent scholars and activists who shared...
May 9 2016 | Posted In: Clayborne Carson, King Institute
After a career distinguished by peripatetic political engagement, photographer Bob Fitch [July 20, 1939-April 29, 2016] died in his sleep at his home in Watsonville, California from complications due to Parkinson's disease. Bob is best known for his images of social justice movements during the...
May 2 2016
SNCC veteran Willie B. Wazir Peacock passed away 17 April 2016. He was at home in San Pablo, California. An activist and mentor, Peacock is remembered as a “kind, gentle, ‘salt of the earth’ person.”
Born in Charleston, Mississippi, Peacock witnessed “slavery first hand on [the] plantation” where...
Apr 29 2016 | Posted In: King Institute
Reverend Samuel Billy Kyles passed away on Tuesday, 26 April 2016. He was surrounded by friends and family in Memphis, Tennessee.
A preacher who worked for justice, Kyles is remembered as a modest, heroic, and loyal man. He was also present when Martin Luther King, Jr. was assassinated.
In 1934,...
