Property Before People

Property Before People

In 1994, Alabama adopted a hate crimes statute that imposes “additional penalties where it is shown that a perpetrator committing the underlying offense was motivated by the victim’s actual or perceived race, color, religion, national origin, ethnicity, or physical or...

Things We Never Knew We Never Knew

You think the only people who are people Are the people who look and think like you But if you walk the footsteps of a stranger You’ll learn things you never knew you never knew My daughter is singing “Colors of the Wind” in her upcoming voice recital. I’ve always...
A People’s Time To Move

A People’s Time To Move

Eighty people stand in a circle outside a church in Northport. Arms crossed, hands clasped. Latino, black, white. Invited to share their vision for a beautiful Alabama, voices ring out. Dignity, dignidad. Life without fear, vivir sin miedo. Peace, paz. Strength to...

Jesus Our Buen Coyote

I’m going to start reading the Bible back to front. Or maybe hanging off of a limb upside down, like a bat. Then maybe I’ll see the things I need to see, the first time around. In the words of Robert McAfee Brown, I need new lenses to read the Bible “with Third World...
GBM 2011: A Year In Review

GBM 2011: A Year In Review

Here at GBM, 2011 was a year of the unexpected, both heartbreaking and inspiring. On April 27, deadly tornadoes swept through Alabama, leaving wide swaths of the state devastated. The tornadoes didn’t respect the boundaries we often set between rich and poor, but...