A. Philip Randolph Institute - APRI Fort Wayne Chapter

Just like our Founders, Asa Philip Randolph and Bayard Rustin who fought for the rights of those in the workplace who were considered beneath job safety, fair wages and basic human rights...

"We celebrate of freedom for the enslaved human beings who weren't even considered people when the Declaration of Independence was signed." -Opal Lee, Grandmother of Juneteenth.

We are still in the same fight, today. The fight to be considered people in a world that demands our work but continues to deflate rights as working people.

Don't just celebrate Juneteenth, be apart of the action. Join our continued fight for freedom by becoming an APRI member thru our website apri.org.

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As our Pride Month celebration continues, we’re pulling from the Solidarity Works Podcast archive.

In this episode, we talked with two activists from the Bayard Rustin Center for Social Justice about the life and legacy of the late labor and civil rights’ leader, who has often remained in the shadows of history. We also chat about their work with the LGBTQ+ community and how everyone can play a role in building a more inclusive, loving movement for all.

Listen here: https://solidarityworks.libsyn.com/bayard-rustin-and-the-art-of-angelic-trouble-making

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Today, this civil rights icon would have been 137 years old! We're still doing your work Mr. Randolph, happy birthday!

I am humbled and honored by the commitment that military service personnel, as well as their families, make in service to our country. This beautiful story in UU World highlights the life and contributions of James Clayton Flowers, the oldest known living Tuskegee Airman, a courageous group of African Americans who served in the Army Air Corps during World War II and were renowned for their exceptional service and skill.

Flowers is a Unitarian Universalist and a member of the Unitarian Universalist Church of Las Cruces, New Mexico. The Rev. Ali K.C. Bell, minister at the Las Cruces congregation reflects fondly in the story on something Flowers often says: “People always want to talk to me about being a Tuskegee Airman, but I’m most proud of being a teacher and that I taught RE.”

Read more about James Clayton Flowers at the link to the UU World story in the comments below.

Power, and a New Kind of Politics
Randolph understood that dignity wasn’t a slogan. It was a contract, a paycheck, and a ballot.

The photograph of A. Philip Randolph that endures most stubbornly is not a portrait softened by time. It is a face set against the pressure of history—broad, unblinking, unseduced by applause. He looked like a man who had learned, through repetition, that the country’s grand ideals were negotiable only when people without power found a way to make themselves costly to ignore. Randolph did not invent the moral language of Black freedom. What he helped invent—patiently, and with an organizer’s suspicion of symbolism unbacked by structure—was the machinery that could convert that language into institutional change.

Read the full story at https://www.kolumnmagazine.com/2026/02/27/power-and-a-new-kind-of-politics/