On October 18, 1972, the famous Wilmington Ten were wrongly convicted of having incited race riots. Benjamin Chavis spent four years in jail-and it was in the flames of that injustice that these psalms were forged.
Benjamin F. Chavis, Jr., has traveled a long road in the work of civil rights, serving in executive leadership for the United Church of Christ's Commission of Racial Justice in the 1970s and '80s, for the NAACP and the Million Man March in the 1990s, and more recently for multi-media corporations. Currently Dr. Chavis is the president and CEO of the National Newspaper Publishers Association.
