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2020 Year in review

A quick glance at some of the successes of 2020 for Project Pilgrimage.

Sankofa Impact (PP) Fall 2020

The Sankofa Impact (PP) Fall 2020 newsletter includes a note from ED Felicia Ishino, a...

Autumn 2020 ED Letter

And when you vote, remember those who fought for revolutionary change and the liberation for...

Why Hopeful Representation Really Matters

Pilgrimage alum Simon Tran on Executive Director Felicia Ishino, Sen. Kamala Harris, and the importance...

Robert Graetz, Minister and courageous friend of the Pilgrimage, dies at 92

Project Pilgrimage cohorts met with Robert Graetz three separate times and he always left us...

Platform: Quess? Moore

Quess? Moore and Eleanor Chang-Stucki led us through such a timely and much needed Platform...

Sankofa Impact (PP) Summer 2020

The Sankofa Impact (PP) Summer 2020 newsletter includes a letter from ED Felicia Ishino, thoughts...

Disciplined Hope in Mississippi

I have thought about James Chaney, Andrew Goodman, and Michael Schwerner every day since Mr....

A Letter From Our Director

(Appeared in the Summer 2020 Project Pilgrimage Newsletter.) Riding on the bus during a Pilgrimage...

Civil rights advocate and friend of the Pilgrimage, Dr. Reavis Mitchell, passes at 72.

One of Nashville’s most well-known historians, and a longtime administrator at Fisk University, has died...