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the same year. His faith came to full expression in the series of three Sacred Concerts from 1965 until his death in 1974. In the Sacred Concerts Ellington proclaims the magnificence of God, the call for equality and love for our neighbor. In these works, we perceive Ellington’s serenity in the presence of God (Heaven), his contemplation of God’s vastness and power (In the Beginning), the jubilation of worship (The Lord’s Prayer and David Danced) and the expanded and transcendent meaning of the

. “Oregon had a top-notch interdisciplinary philosophy program where I could study consciousness theory from a philosophy foundation.” His PLU mentors — Shore, Dana Anderson, and John Moritsugu — continued to help guide Bell and point to opportunities, like those he found at the University of Oregon. His time at Oregon was “one of the more selfish times of my life where I could just ask these questions that intrigued me so deeply, and really self-search and discover,” he said. Bell planned to try to

as a social, political and cultural figure through the lens black feminist theory,” said Jennifer Smith, director of the Center for Gender Equity who will serve as PLU’s first dean for inclusive excellence starting in January. Smith will be co-teaching with CGE Outreach and Prevention Coordinator Tolu Taiwo. “It’s going to be fun to co-teach together and engage students to ask really big questions about race, gender and sexuality through something we consume and enjoy,” Smith said. "It’s going to

study it,” she told Zellner at the time. From then on things would change. He became a field secretary for the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee, participating in marches, protesting the injustices of segregation and taking part in organizing the Freedom Riders of 1961.The Freedom Riders were an organized group of civil rights activists who rode buses into the south to test the new Supreme Court decision that outlawed racial segregation in restaurants and waiting rooms in terminals serving