During the last presidential campaign, I was tempted to voice where my head was, and more so, my spirit that invariably found closure as I analyzed and dissected two radically different campaigns styles. I elected not to make public social media pronouncements. As my spirit settled on one area of concern (similar to what I felt as I watched the conclusive results of   a losing 2016 effort to win the Office of the President.) my 2024 focus was pointedly on the street-level, boots on the ground practicality of what was occurring within both political party’s campaign and strategic thinking. Once again, as in 2016, the Democrats could not shake its intellectual arrogance. Democratic strategists empowered by powerful funders cloaked their national campaign within a privileged ambiance. And that non-populist mentality failed miserably to compete with the everywo/man’s candidate, a prior president who had the savvy to hold a political rally in “Da” South Bronx and also did a photo op on ...

  Rev. Dr. Flora Wilson Bridges Brown Bag Lunch Reading, “On Becoming…” with excerpts from her book,  Resurrection Song: African American Spirituality  complemented by personal anecdotes Immediately following the reading, there will be a moderator-led discussion and Q&A presented by aaduna. Free and open to the public. Email bill@aaduna.org Rev. Dr. Flora Wilson Bridges For a decade, Rev. Dr. Flora Wilson Bridges has been pastor at Rendall Memorial Presbyterian Church in Harlem. Among other outreach, the congregation's Christian social ministry operates a  twenty-bed homeless shelter in the basement of the church. Dr. Bridges administers this ministry. She also serves as a Union Theological Seminary adjunct professor at Bedford Hills Women's Correctional Facility. Prior to Rendall Presbyterian, Rev. Bridges served as Senior Minister of the First Presbyterian Church of Brooklyn.   A native of Bainbridge, Georgia she grew up on Chicago’s South Side. She...