Black History Month Celebration Day 9- Mother Rosa Parks

 

Today’s blog update includes a video podcast episode below.

Today’s Black History Month Celebration honors memories of Civil Rights icon Rosa Parks whose birthday was recently celebrated. Detroit Pistons honored her by partnering with the Rosa Parks Estate to provide free bus transportation to Detroiters on February 4 and February 7. They also provided free jackets to Detroit’s transportation department.

I am sharing with you both a collage of selected photos as well as single photographs from my archive database that I snapped or that were taken with my camera at several community events, including Living Stones/Imani Day programs held at Calvary Baptist church and Ms. Park’s 100th birthday celebration and postage stamp unveiling held at the Charles Wright Museum of African American History. 

 Many of us in the community have had the opportunity to participate in events and activities involving Mother Parks over the years because of her commitment to reaching out to churches, schools and neighborhood organizations through the Rosa and Raymond Parks Institute for Self- Development’s Pathways to Freedom Program, Imani Day Interfaith celebrations and the Parks Legacy Program. I am blessed and consider myself fortunate to have had the opportunity to not only interact with Mrs. Parks, but also to have Co-Chaired both the Imani Day and Living Stone events held at Calvary Baptist church in her honor when I served as an Assistant Minister there.

Thanks to all who contributed in their own way to the historic significance of all programs. A special thanks to Michael Joseph (not pictured)who served as videographer of all of Calvary’s Imani Day and Living Stones programs circa 1995-2000.

All photos are captioned.

Blessings,

Cynthia Wilson

Mighty Good Revisited

 MIGHY  GOOD!    Listen!

NB-I don’t recall writing it exactly like this. I need to revise it. 

I am lifting up an earlier post entitled “Mighty Good” from March 2018 which I also repurposed for a podcast episode on March 29 of this year when the Coronavirus pandemic was in its early stages. Well, this morning spirit has led me to the post once again. I figure it would be an appropriate backdrop and word for the current mood and overcoming power needed to get through the day. 

Cutting to the chase, I am again as I’ve stated in the past, an independent blogger. An individual can post content that is not offensive or that does not impinge upon anyone else’s intellectual property rights nor appropriate that person’s image or likeness for commercial gain without their consent and that is also newsworthy or allowable under fair use standards. I could get into a lot more technical details and language. But I will spare your morning inspiration period by rapping it up with this:

I love writing/blogging about spiritual, theological, cultural topics and will often post on a variety of experiences related to those subjects as well as artists, social media and political news updates. It has become very confusing recently in my efforts to post fairly about artists that you may see on my blog posts. This has more to do with lack of clear communication behind the scenes. So, you may see a blog post on John Mayer one day and the next day see a post on Jonathan Mc Reynolds and the next day one on Alicia Keys. That is just what I do... So, don’t take offense or become a “hater” of my blog or organize any campaigns to blacklist my blog or cut me off from the popular underground or mainstream blogger media flow. Because of behind the scenes confusion, it has been years since I have actually felt comfortable posting any updates about John Mayer because of this. But a few days ago I posted about his birthday celebration and his recent health challenges which folks are concerned about and would like to be updated on.

 In a similar vein, Jonathan McReynolds and Mali Music have a chart topping gospel record “Movin’ On being currently celebrated and that is newsworthy and should be reported in the music industry news cycles as well as on blogs and other social media outlets by enthusiastic and admiring fans.

In short, it’s all good and we know God can get us through any confusion or health challenges when we call on him. So, I   am praying for peace, cooperation, good health and overcoming of media challenges through clear communication. Have a wonderful day. God bless!

Enjoy the “Mighty Good” blog post and related podcasts. Be on alert for invites to participate in upcoming podcast episodes. Hint. Hint...

Blessings.

Prayerfully,

Rev. Cynthia Wilson, Chaplain of Pop