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May 2018

May 14, 2018

Lynching, Racial Terror, and Black Liberation Theology

The Reverend Dr. James H. Cone, known as the originator of black liberation theology, died...

February 2017

February 27, 2017

Uncle Tom’s Cabin and Our Rumbling Nation

This is an age of the world when nations are trembling and convulsed. A mighty...

October 2016

October 18, 2016

Creative Tension in the White Imagination

Tension Isn’t Usually Pretty A Facebook video shows a deputy sheriff getting in the face...

June 2016

June 01, 2016

The Arab of the Future

I snuck into a chair while a friend was describing how growing up under a...

September 2015

September 09, 2015

What’s Wrong with this Picture?

Underlying what's wrong with this picture is where it resides. Not in a museum of...

June 2015

June 01, 2015

Charlie Hebdo and the Inner Soul of Humor

My friend Justin Smith recently wrote a piece for Harper’s Magazine. Justin is a brilliant...

April 2015

April 01, 2015

Never Again: Netanyahu’s Holocaust Cliché

In the air, on the air, tunneling through cables, conquering newsrooms, occupying the mouths of...

January 2015

January 20, 2015

The Birmingham Project

I was looking into the eyes of a black girl around thirteen years old. She...

January 16, 2015

It’s Time to Derail the Gravy Train

Earlier this week we saw yet again what happens when thousands of the unemployed, living...

January 05, 2015

#BlackLivesMatter to Poets

Poets are rising to the cause, hands raised ("Don't shoot!") but hands also holding pencils...

December 2014

December 16, 2014

The Regrettably Pretty Shoes: A St. Louis Story

Guest post by Linda Wendling I love St. Louis. I love Ferguson. My whole family...

June 2014

June 13, 2014

Can We Bridge the Racial Divide?

Recently, after I’d just watched the documentary about food deserts called A Place at the...

January 2014

January 21, 2014

My Personal History of U.S. Race Relations

On Martin Luther King Day, I mused about how my relation to African-Americans has been...

November 2013

November 06, 2013

Set the Captive Free

I read my friend Dyana’s Art House America essay about her brother “definitely going to...

August 2013

August 28, 2013

The March on Washington: A Personal Anniversary

Guest Post By Christine A. Scheller “Many of our white brothers…have come to realize...

August 08, 2013

Black Boy, 2013

One of my boys is reading Richard Wright’s Black Boy for his English class this...

August 05, 2013

The American Divide

This is not an essay about politics but I have to begin with politics because...

June 2013

June 28, 2013

Remembering Deacon Patenotte

On Wednesday, June 12, 2013, at more or less the same time that I was...

March 2013

March 25, 2013

The New Improved Golden Rule

Our neighbor Jack is a retired widower. He goes to a mainline Baptist church. It’s...

February 2013

February 24, 2013

Living in a Border State

I spent elementary school in a Mexican neighborhood in Austin, Texas. I attended birthday parties...

October 2012

October 17, 2012

Don’t Cry for Me, Bethesda

Awhile back, a well-meaning (and very successful) friend said to me, “I just wish we...