MMI
  • Home
  • This Land Is Your Land
    • The Book
    • Preview
    • The Goodbye Girl
    • Sister Rose (Or, the Power of "We")
  • Me and Mary
    • The Book
    • Preview
    • 40 Virtues
    • Lessons from Birmingham
  • The Work
    • "For All" America
    • True Democracy >
      • Power to the People
      • Faith & Democracy
      • Represent
    • Beloved Community >
      • All Inclusive
      • We Belong
      • Soul Work
      • Luminescent
    • Anti-Poverty >
      • 4th Terrace N. Neighbor Fund
      • Economic Justice Action Collaborative
      • Red Mountain Foundry
  • About Us
    • About MMI
    • Our Board
    • Resources >
      • MMI Press
      • Letters from a Birmingham Boy
      • Films to Watch
      • Books to Read
      • Songs We Love
    • Connect With Us

Letters from a Birmingham Boy

Picture
Downtown Birmingham's historic Alabama Theatre.

SUBSCRIBE TO
Letters from a Birmingham Boy
"Diversity, poverty, humanity, community and other things that matter to me."

A blog by MMI founder R David Moore.

"Today, I’d describe myself as many things -- an author, activist and storyteller, a crazy combination of Southerner, Sooner, San Franciscan and New Yorker, southpaw and INFP, LGBTQ+ and American of varied ancestry, social scientist, artist and minister -- and proud to be all of the above."
"But, more than anything, I’m a Birminghamian, born and raised in a time and place that got a 50-year head start on learning the same lessons that the nation as a whole would have to learn about becoming a land made for both you and me. And learn those lessons they did
."
"Despite 1960s Birmingham’s well-earned reputation for bigotry and cruelty, the people I’d meet in my growing up there in the 70s and early 80s, people of all backgrounds and colors, men and women, straight and gay, the devout and the non-religious and of all ages would, through their kindness, do far more than gift me an unwavering hope in humanity."

"They’d make me forever proud to be a Birmingham boy."

https://lettersfromabirminghamboy.substack.com/


Most Popular

We Americans
Election Reflections #6: News from the Future

Picture

MLK Day Letter - Memorial for a Dream? (Or, Getting Our “Fight” Back.)
Why This Celebration of Martin Luther King's 96th Birthday Must Be, Instead of a Day of Service, a Call to Action.

Picture

Things That Need Doing
Election Reflections #5: It’s Not the Waking, It’s the Rising

Picture

"We Didn’t Start the Fire" - Baby Boomer Recognition Day
The Incalculable Debt the Rest of Us Owe the Baby Boomers

Picture

The Way It Is?
Election Reflections #2: The Heart of America (or, How to Outrun a Bear)

Picture

"We're Gonna Make It Anyway"
Election Reflections #3: Why, though some are declaring this election an ending, it has all the makings of a beginning.

Picture

Day 30 – "Don’t Dream It’s Over" (Or, the Resistance to Their Resistance) Why, Despite the Institutional Power the Supremacist Faction Currently Wields, the Only Way They Win Is if We Allow Them To.

Picture

Stayed On Freedom
Election Reflections #1: What those who've come before us can teach us about staying in the fight.

Picture

How We Fight - Day 1: We're Still Standing
“I’m still standing — better than I ever did.”

Picture

One More Bridge to Cross
1965, 1978, 2008 & 2025 -- Four Powerful Segments of United States History and the Lessons We Can Learn From Them.

Picture


- Back to
Resources -
- Back to
About Us
-
- Back to HOME - 

To edit, simply click directly on the text and add your own words. Use this text to go into more detail about your company. Make sure to include information about how your company came to be.

  • Home
  • This Land Is Your Land
    • The Book
    • Preview
    • The Goodbye Girl
    • Sister Rose (Or, the Power of "We")
  • Me and Mary
    • The Book
    • Preview
    • 40 Virtues
    • Lessons from Birmingham
  • The Work
    • "For All" America
    • True Democracy >
      • Power to the People
      • Faith & Democracy
      • Represent
    • Beloved Community >
      • All Inclusive
      • We Belong
      • Soul Work
      • Luminescent
    • Anti-Poverty >
      • 4th Terrace N. Neighbor Fund
      • Economic Justice Action Collaborative
      • Red Mountain Foundry
  • About Us
    • About MMI
    • Our Board
    • Resources >
      • MMI Press
      • Letters from a Birmingham Boy
      • Films to Watch
      • Books to Read
      • Songs We Love
    • Connect With Us