UnEqual: Four Stories in America
As part of a 4-week sermon and chat series, Dearborn First UMC will be paying tribute to notable change-makers in the fight for equal rights in the U.S.
Come hear more about them in worship Sundays at 10 a.m., and then take part in a Sermon Chat Group to continue the conversation!
Celebrated Individuals
Nikole Hannah-Jones
(1976 - present )
Sunday, January 14
American investigative journalist, New York Times staff writer, and Pulitzer Prize winner known for creating The 1619 Project, an initiative that reveals the central role of slavery in the formation of this country, calling into question the recording of history and how it is taught in American schools. Learn More.
Dr. Susan Moore
(Died December, 2020)
Sunday, January 21
Born in Jamaica and raised in Michigan, Moore was a family physician who died of complications due to Covid-19.
In the weeks preceding her death she advocated for her own medical care, publicly voicing concerns that she was not being taken seriously by white medical professionals. Learn More.
Buck Franklin
(May 6, 1879 – Sept. 24, 1960)
Sunday, January 28
Buck Colbert Franklin was an American attorney, known for defending the survivors of the 1921 Tulsa Massacre - a race riot that killed approximately 300 people and destroyed the Greenwood District - a section of Tulsa known as “Black Wall Street” because it was one of the most affluent Black communities in the nation. Read more.
Catherine Flowers
(1958 - Present)
Sunday, February 4
Catherine Flowers is an environmental and climate justice advocate, fighting for equal access to clean water and sanitation infrastructure in poor, rural communities. Noting that clean water is a basic human and civil right, Flowers has advocated for environmental justice in front of the United Nations and the U.S. Congress. Learn more.
“This is our national truth: America would not be America without the wealth from Black labor, without Black striving, Black ingenuity, Black resistance.”
― Nikole Hannah-Jones, The 1619 Project: Born on the Water
Attribution: UnEqual, A Story of America, ©2022 Michael Eric Dyson, LLC & Marc Favreau.
Graphic design based on original book cover art: ©2022 by gray13
Photo credits: (Nikole Hannah-Jones) Associação Brasileira de Jornalismo Investigativo, CC BY 2.0 <https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0>, via Wikimedia Commons,
(Dr. Susan Moore) Source: MedPageToday, December 23, 2020; https://www.medpagetoday.com/infectiousdisease/covid19/90412; (Catherine Flowers) John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation, CC BY 4.0 <https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0>, via Wikimedia Commons, catherinecolemanflowers.com; (Buck Franklin) Public Domain via Wikimedia Commons.
