An awesome initiative by performing arts training centre Cifas, the Mobile Light Poem sees riders of electric scooters decked out in Christmas lights. They ride through every municipality in Brussels, a parade of bright, blinking colours.
It was a time of massive upheaval in the United States. The civil rights movement of the 1950s and 1960s was the catalyst for social change, as African-Americans sought full integration into mainstream American society. The role of Jews in this movement was significant, as well as complex.
The segregated South became the battleground for the future of America. The bloody Civil War of the 1860s had ended slavery, but severe overt discrimination and persecution remained over the next 100 years. Under “Jim Crow” laws, black Americans were forced to adhere to separate and degrading facilities such as segregated bus seating, public restrooms, schools, and movie theaters. One of the catalysts launching the new civil rights movement came in 1955 in Alabama. Rosa Parks, a black woman sitting at her designated section at the back of a bus, was told to give up her seat to a white man who couldn’t find a spot to sit upfront. Parks refused and was subsequently arrested.