Posts Tagged Ella Baker

from the Ella Baker Center for Human Rights
By Suzanna Bobadilla • 9 years ago

A song for today: “We who believe in freedom cannot rest”

On days like today, like last Monday, like September 4th, like July 15th of 2013, May 2nd of 2012, and like many, many more, I reach for Sweet Honey in the Rock‘s “Ella’s Song,” a song composed of legendary civil rights leader Ella Baker‘s own words. “We who believe in freedom cannot rest,” Ella said. “We who believe in freedom cannot rest until it comes,” Sweet Honey sings.

On days like today, like last Monday, like September 4th, ...
By Rose • 13 years ago

ella – progress and a reminder that we cannot rest until reproductive freedom comes

I couldn’t help but include this YouTube video of “Ella’s song,” in this post about the recently approved emergency contraception pill that bears the name of an unsung heroine of the civil rights movement. The refrain of the song really sums up how I feel about this contraceptive breakthrough that women have been met with this past Friday: We who believe in freedom cannot rest; We who believe in freedom cannot rest until it comes.

I couldn’t help but include this YouTube video of “Ella’s song,” in this post about the recently approved emergency contraception pill that bears the name of an unsung heroine of the civil rights movement. The refrain ...
By Rose • 13 years ago

ella – progress and a reminder that we cannot rest until reproductive freedom comes

I couldn’t help but include this YouTube video of “Ella’s song,” in this post about the recently approved emergency contraception pill that bears the name of an unsung heroine of the civil rights movement. The refrain of the song really sums up how I feel about this contraceptive breakthrough that women have been met with this past Friday: We who believe in freedom cannot rest; We who believe in freedom cannot rest until it comes.

I couldn’t help but include this YouTube video of “Ella’s song,” in this post about the recently approved emergency contraception pill that bears the name of an unsung heroine of the civil rights movement. The refrain ...