Crystal Springs AME Church

03/26/2026

02/12/2026

This month marks the centenary of Negro History Week—now known as Black
History Month—founded by Dr. Carter G. Woodson in 1926. To commemorate this
100th anniversary, we join more than 100 organizations nationwide in presenting a
new social justice hymn by Nolan Williams, Jr., chief music editor of the African
American Heritage Hymnal.

“Just Like Selma” recalls the Civil Rights marches that helped secure passage of the
Voting Rights Act and challenges us to summon that same courage and conviction
as we confront present-day threats to our democracy.

For more information about the ’Just Like Selma’ Hymn-sing Project, visit
NEWorks.us.

02/01/2026

2026 Black History Theme
A Century of Black History Commemorations

2026 marks a century of national commemorations of Black history. Dr. Carter Godwin Woodson, George Cleveland Hall, William B. Hartgrove, Jesse E. Moorland, Alexander L. Jackson, and James E. Stamps institutionalized the teaching, study, dissemination, and commemoration of Black history when they founded the Association for the Study of Negro Life and History (ASNLH) on September 9, 1915.

asalh.org.

01/29/2026

The Man Who Built the March
Bayard Rustin engineered the civil rights movement’s most iconic day—and spent decades paying for being visible in all the ways America punished.

Rustin’s life is not merely a tragedy of sidelining. It is also an argument for a deeper definition of leadership. He did not lead by dominating a microphone. He led by building coalitions that could withstand pressure, by developing strategies that could be taught and replicated, and by insisting—sometimes at odds with prevailing fashion—that civil rights required not only moral witness but also durable political and economic power.

One of the cruel ironies of Rustin’s life: he was asked to build movements devoted to human dignity, while being told—sometimes implicitly, sometimes explicitly—that his own dignity was negotiable. His story forces a question that remains modern: how many movements for justice reproduce the exclusions of the world they seek to change?

Read the full story at https://www.kolumnmagazine.com/2026/01/28/the-man-who-built-the-march/