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January 16, 2019
MLK Worked for Transformation – Not for Service
On MLK Day, Americans will be encouraged to volunteer in memory of Martin Luther King, Jr. Inevitably, one sentence from King’s final sermon, “The Drum Major Instinct,” will be shared: “Everybody can be great because everybody can serve.” Many volunteers will complete the day believing the quote refers to annual volunteering. But the sermon was about a much larger challenge: finding one’s role within organizations and movements dedicated to the long struggle for justice. King challenged America to imagine what it would look like to infuse our nation’s promise – all people are created equal – with a divine love. That love is muscular. It breaks unjust laws, resists oppressive institutions, and rewires our souls with enough grace to embrace one another across difference. His 1958 essay, “An Experiment in Love,” identifies love of all persons as the foundational commitment in nonviolent strategy. King writes, “It is a love in which the individual seeks not his own good, but the good of his…
January 14, 2019
Ditch the Vacuum: Strengthening our Civic Engagement Values is a Community Endeavor
This blog post is part of a three-part series on the third annual national convening of Newman Civic Fellows hosted by Campus Compact the Edward M. Kennedy Institute for the United States Senate. The essays in this series are written by Newman Civic Fellows who won an essay competition among attendees of the convening. This essay is written by Liliana Diaz Solodukhin second year Ph.D. student studying higher education at the University of Denver. By Liliana Diaz Solodukhin, University of Denver I believe in the importance of practicing our civic duty as citizens of the United States, however, it shames me to say that prior to my recent participation in the Newman Civic Fellows National Convening, I could not describe the process by which laws are made in our country. It has been 14 years since my civics course in high school and the best I can remember is all fifty states. It is a combination of a faulty memory and a school…
January 10, 2019
A Newly-Found Political Interest
This blog post is part of a three-part series on the third annual national convening of Newman Civic Fellows hosted by Campus Compact the Edward M. Kennedy Institute for the United States Senate. The essays in this series are written by Newman Civic Fellows who won an essay competition among attendees of the convening. This essay is written by Nitan Shanas, a psychology major at Rutgers University Camden. By Nitan Shanas, Rutgers University – Camden I feel fortunate to have been given the opportunity to attend the Newman Civic Fellowship Conference. The conference enabled me to learn from like-minded individuals about their civic engagement efforts on their respective campuses. I was inspired and energized to continue my work thanks to this conference and the people that I met. One particular aspect that I enjoyed was the realization that, while each fellow has different social issue interests, we all were unified under the common goal of helping others in need. I shared stories about the work…
January 7, 2019
Change Happens when We Come Together
This blog post is part of a three-part series on the third annual national convening of Newman Civic Fellows hosted by Campus Compact the Edward M. Kennedy Institute for the United States Senate. The essays in this series are written by Newman Civic Fellows who won an essay competition among attendees of the convening. This essay is written by Atticus Rice, a communications and political science major at McDaniel College. By Atticus Rice, McDaniel College I was named a 2018 Newman Civic Fellow in March. And this was a great honor. I got to give an acceptance speech at my college’s annual community engagement luncheon, shake hands with our president, and take home a pretty certificate. Despite the nice red hue of the certificate’s frame, I was struggling to get something tangible out of this recognition, or at least to understand what I was supposed to be getting. This all changed at the 2018 Newman Civic Fellows National Convening on Nov. 17-18 in Boston. Within…
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