Put Your Shoes On. We Are Marching

Flag announcing another lynching is flown from the window of the NAACP headquarters on 69 Fifth Ave., New York City in 1936. Credit: Shutterstock

I’ve never been more scared for my Black son, but I knew this is what we had to do.

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An image of the November 2026 issue of Sojourners, titled "Face to Face." It features George Lakey on the cover
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