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Leslye Colvin

Leslye Colvin is a writer, contemplative activist and social commentator. She is a graduate of the Living School for Action and Contemplation and writes from her African-American Catholic heart at Leslye's Labyrinth. 

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An Alabama State Trooper salutes the casket carrying the late Rep. John Lewis, D-Ga., after it was carried across the Edmund Pettus Bridge in a horse-drawn carriage in Selma, Alabama, July 26. The civil rights movement legend who was a colleague of the Re

Are we on the right side of history on racial justice?

Commentary: Today, decades after the civil rights movement, I often wonder how I would have participated during that time if I had not been a young child. Growing up, I knew that my faith community was larger than my local Alabama Catholic parish.

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