Bishop Thomas Gumbleton, one of MCHR’s co-founders, is celebrating his 90th birthday this month.
Along with Episcopal Bishop Coleman H. McGehee and Rabbi Richard Herz, he was a co-founder of MCHR in 1980. The trio of committed activists created it as a forum to discuss and act on racism, unemployment, sexism, militarism and economic justice.
All of us at MCHR wish Bishop Gumbleton a happy birthday and thank him for his decades of leadership and inspiration in advocating for human rights and world peace.
An op-ed on U.S. military intervention in the Middle East authored by MCHR co-founder Bishop Thomas Gumbleton was recently published in Common Dreams.
Abayomi Azikiwe posits the MCHR position on the continuing U.S. military intervention in the Middle East and Persian Gulf.
7 p.m., February 12, 2020
Life Science Bldg., #113
University of Detroit Mercy
4001 McNichols Road
Detroit, Mich. 48221
The Freedom Tour is scheduled for June 19-30, 2020. Once again, MCHR will sponsor an unforgettable 10-day bus tour through the Deep South to explore the history of the civil rights movement and the people and ideas that drove the movement.
The Freedom Tour will make numerous stops throughout Kentucky, Georgia, Alabama, Mississippi and Tennessee.
Scheduled stops along the way will include: The King Center for Non-Violence (Atlanta, Georgia); Birmingham Civil Rights Institute (Birmingham, Alabama); Edmund Pettus Bridge (Selma, Alabama) and Berea College (Berea, Kentucky) along with many other important civil rights landmarks and institutions.
The deadline for applications is January 31, 2020.
For additional information or if you have questions, contact Chantelle Yancy at MCHRFreedomTour@gmail.com or 248-238-9808.
