In one of my earliest vivid memories, I was four years old and crying my eyes out. It was August 1991, and I was in Lumpkin, Stewart County, Georgia. The occasion was the funeral of my maternal great-grandmother, Charlie Ellen Rutherford (nee Cullen) and I was terrified. “Am I going to die?” I wailed, as…

On Saturday, February 18th, at noon, nearly a hundred people gathered at Garfield Avenue and East Second Street on the city’s East End. The gathering was cosponsored by Rabb Spann of Mount Olive Baptist Church, Tony Washington of the Crazii Dozen Auto Club, and the Plainfield Anti-Violence Coalition. Its purpose was to take a stand…