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December 2015

December 18, 2015

To Dr. #LaryciaHawkins: An Open Letter from Black Muslim Women

Earlier this week, Larycia Hawkins, a tenured Professor of Political Science at Wheaton College was...

December 17, 2015

#WheatonCollege: “Have You Got Good Religion?”

Dr. Larycia Hawkins’ decision to wear a hijab during Advent to express solidarity with our Muslim...

December 09, 2015

#DonaldTrump: Has America Seen This Before?

Friends of R3 offered some reflections on the recent comments and actions from GOP presidential...

December 03, 2015

#SanBernardinoShooting: Will Anything Change??

Here are some reflections from friends of R3 in the aftermath of yet another mass...

November 2015

November 17, 2015

An Open Letter of Love to Black Students: #BlackLivesMatter

I was an early signer of this open letter posted December 8, 2014 on the...

November 10, 2015

#ConcernedStudent1950: But Please #StayWoke!!

On November 9, 2015, after continued protests on the campus of the University of Missouri,...

November 02, 2015

The Illusion of Inclusion: When All Lives Don’t Matter

by Dameon E. Madison Just for a moment, let us pause to consider the realities...

October 2015

October 29, 2015

“Going Hard for #SocialJustice: The Assault at #SpringValleyHigh

A few years ago I was asked to come mentor a few black teenage girls...

October 28, 2015

“Why Didn’t She Just Act Right?”: The Assault at #SpringValleyHigh

On Monday afternoon at Spring Valley High School in Columbia, South Carolina, school resource officer...

October 27, 2015

#BlackGirlsMatter: The Assault at #SpringValleyHigh

On Monday afternoon at Spring Valley High School in Columbia, South Carolina, school resource officer...

October 25, 2015

President Obama and #BlackLivesMatter

On October 22, 2015 at the forum hosted by the Marshall Project at the White...

October 12, 2015

God is a Brown Girl Too

Since dismantling patriarchy is one of my approaches to reading the Scriptures, I thought it...

October 08, 2015

Critical Conversations at the University of Memphis

The Benjamin L. Hooks Institute for Social Change Annual Open House Panel Discussion: The Hot...

September 2015

September 30, 2015

After Charleston: Being Black in the ELCA and the SC Synod

I came back to the Lutheran Theological Southern Seminary in 2012 after having a conversation...

September 06, 2015

My Black Faith and the Faith of #KimDavis

First Published at Ten Speaks I am unashamedly black and unapologetically Christian. I love my...

August 2015

August 31, 2015

The Church, The Poor, and Lessons from Katrina

Published at KineticsLive.com By R. Drew Smith, Ph.D. In 1995, the first of the Left...

August 30, 2015

A Hidden Gem: “Good Cops” Serving Black Communities

Earlier, I wrote a piece that asked "Where are the good cops when we need...

August 03, 2015

Top Five Posts: Darrius, Sandra, and Reluctant Liberals

Here are the top posts for the week of July 27-August 2, 2015 on...

August 03, 2015

Memphis Grassroots Organizations Coalition Statement

R3 has been following the events surrounding the death of Darrius Stewart; a 19 year...

August 01, 2015

The #DarriusStewart Shooting: Weekly Update

On July 17, 2015, Officer Conner Schilling shot and killed Darrius Stewart after a routine...

July 2015

July 29, 2015

Sandra Bland and Cell 95

Here’s the truth. Whether Sister Sandra Bland’s death came by way of self asphyxiation, or...

July 28, 2015

Top Five Posts: Darrius, Dolezal, and Documentaries

Here are the top posts for the week of July 20-26, 2015 on the Rhetoric...

July 28, 2015

The #DarriusStewart Fund

Friends of Darrius Stewart have created a Go FundMe Page for Darrius' family. This too...

July 26, 2015

The #DarriusStewart Shooting: A Weekly Update

On July 17, 2015, Officer Conner Schilling shot and killed Darrius Stewart after a routine...

July 23, 2015

Two Sides of a Copper Coin: The Coloring of #RachelDolezal and #SandraBland in a Post-Racial America

First posted at Rainbows and Lilacs I have always found the term post-racial to not only be...

July 20, 2015

Top Five Posts: Forgiveness, Flags, and Digital Humanities

Here are the top posts for the week of July 13-19, 2015 on the Rhetoric...

July 19, 2015

Born in the Struggle: The Untold Story of the Children of 1960’s and 70’s American Radicals

A documentary film by Kamasi Hill. Born in the Struggle is a documentary film...

July 13, 2015

We Have to Dismantle White Supremacy Before We Can Forgive

by Leah C.K. Lewis First posted at forharriet.com Shortly after the murders of the Mother Emanuel 9 in...

July 13, 2015