Bilgrimage

Colleen, thank you for reminding me that angelic troublemakers should not forget their vocation to be troublemakers. The point on whi...

On 17 April 1986, civil rights activist Bayard Rustin testified before a meeting of a committee of the New York city council as the c...

Today in 1963, Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., gave his "I Have a Dream Speech" in Washington, D.C. Videos of the speech are a...

As the week winds down, I don't want to miss taking note of this important piece of news: the White House announced two days ago tha...

I apologize that I'm a bit pressed for blogging time today, as I prepare for a day trip to chase down some information for the bo...

When I blogged about Rev. Jeremiah Wright’s sermon at New Millennium Baptist church in Little Rock yesterday, I mentioned that I might add a...

On Saturday, Pam Spaulding posted a stellar piece of commentary at her House Blend blog, re: how the “pink beltway” community views the O...

For anyone trying to understand President Obama’s refusal to deal with gay issues—or even speak about gay lives and gay concerns—thus far in...

One final posting before the day ends. Readers of Bilgrimage may have noted that the blog’s footer contains a quotation from Bayard Rustin:...

News of a horrible hate crime in Daytona Beach. According to Mark I. Johnson and Seth Robbins, “Driver Charged with Hate Crime after Bicyc...

I have to be away for a period of time tomorrow, so it's possible I won't be posting until later in the day--if then. Meanwhile, sin...

I had intended to blog today about the African-American leader Bayard Rustin, whose observation about angelic troublemakers forms the footer...

The Fourth for us? It will be some kind of cookout at Philip and Penny’s. Not a barbecue. I have been horrified (and culture-shocked) in t...

Today is the day on which we celebrate the announcement of Emancipation in Texas--and, by extension, everywhere in the United States. It is...

Just now catching up on my daily internet news reading. I find H. Alexander Robinson’s “A Cause of Celebration: Reflections on Our Pro...

As this week winds to a close, and I try to juggle multiple projects (what birthday gift do you give a connoisseur of chocolate who has ev...