“Welcome Home Celebration for Rev. Edward Pinkney” Event, Saturday, July 8, featuring Mrs. Dorothy Pinkney and Rev. Edward Pinkney, sponsored by the Moratorium Now! Coalition to Stop Foreclosures, Evictions & Utility Shutoffs; and the Michigan Emergency Committee Against War & Injustice (MECAWI) at St. Matthew/St. Joseph Episcopal Church, 8850 Woodward, Detroit, MI.
By Leona McElevene
Photojournalist aka “The People’s Photographer”
YouTube Channel: https://www.youtube.com/user/MacSpeaking
“If you do not understand White Supremacy (Racism) — what it is, and how it works — everything else that you understand, will only confuse you.” — Neely Fuller Jr.
“I say self-respect is more powerful than a nuclear weapon.” – Frances Cress Welsing, M.D.
“The Negro cannot win … if he is willing to sell the future of his children for his personal and immediate comfort and safety.” – Dr. Martin L. King, Jr.
“If we don’t tell their stories, then the ancestors get no glory!!!” – R2C2H2 Tha Artivist
“I’m looking for freedom. Full freedom. Not some inferior brand.” – Paul Robeson
“The limits of tyrants are prescribed by the endurance of those whom they oppress.” – Frederick Douglass
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Previous VOD stories on Rev. Pinkney:
http://voiceofdetroit.net/2015/11/02/give-67-year-old-rev-edward-pinkney-a-presidential-pardon/
http://voiceofdetroit.net/2015/07/07/a-visit-with-michigan-political-prisoner-rev-edward-pinkney/
http://voiceofdetroit.net/2014/06/03/rev-pinkney-in-the-mouth-of-the-beast-in-benton-harbor/
