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The Reverend Marcia L. Dyson has been hailed as one of our nation's foremost religious figures, spiritual writers and noted civic-social activist. Her special brand of wisdom and insight has been shared in leading pulpits across America, on lecture stages at many of the nation's outstanding universities, and on the pages of some of our country's most provocative magazines and books.  As an ordained minister, stirring public speaker and gifted writer Dyson has carried out a ministry of healing to wounded women, neglected children and suffering men throughout America and around the globe.  

Dyson is a native of Chicago, where she attended high school and the University of Illinois and Chicago State University. She served as the first chief of staff for Operation Push’s International Trade Bureau. Dyson became a prominent media, marketing and public relations specialist, serving as a vice-president of some of Chicago's leading firms, including the Margie Korshak and Robert J. Dale agencies. In 1992, she was appointed by Mayor Richard Daley to serve as the Public Information Officer for the Mayor's Office of Special Events for the City of Chicago.   Read More...

Skip Lunch for Darfur
Can members of Congress stop the genocide by fasting?
By Christopher Beam
Posted Tuesday, May 19, 2009, at 7:26 PM ET

Members of the Congressional Black Caucus gathered near the Capitol building Tuesday to announce that starting right now, they will begin fasting for Darfur. But, just to make sure no one gets hurt, they will take turns.

This serial fasting is not to be confused with a hunger strike. A hunger strike has an all-too-real deadline. It expir! es when your demands are met … or when you do. Sometimes it works, a s in the case of Gandhi. Sometimes it does not, as IRA member Bobby Sands would tell you if he were alive.

The caucus's protest is a temporary fast. Fifteen members will stop eating for one day each, starting with Rep. Barbara Lee on Tuesday night.. They can fast for longer, if they want. But the point is not to drop dead on the House floor. It's to call attention to the declining humanitarian situation in Darfur—President Omar al-Bashir recently kicked aid agencies out of the country—and to pressure President Obama to fulfill his campaign promise and intervene to stop the genocide. When Congress returns from its recess in June, they will ask the rest of their colleagues to join them.

Whether they get anyone else to join their fast remains to be seen. But they will have no trouble getting other members of Congress—and the administration—to agree on what needs to be done in Darfur. Among! their demands: Return the Darfuri people to their homes. Make sure humanitarian workers are allowed back into the country with the resources they need. Maintain sanctions against Sudan. And above all, try al-Bashir for war crimes at The Hague.   Read More...