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March 2016

March 21, 2016

#SandyStillSpeaks: Remembering #SandraBland

Back in February (2016), I had the opportunity to visit Prairie View A & M...

March 12, 2016

An Open Letter to Donald Trump Supporters: Seek Forgiveness and Healing

As I watched in horror the events that happened in St. Louis and Chicago at...

March 06, 2016

“I Love the Evangelicals:” Conservative Evangelicals and Their Donald Trump Problem-Pt. 1

As Donald Trump continues his journey to become the presumptive nominee of the Republican Party,...

February 2016

February 26, 2016

#BlackTruthMatters: A Conversation on Race

“How do you get past race if you don’t even want to admit that something...

February 22, 2016

#BlackTruthMatters: The Disregard and Recovery of Black Truth

This post is part of the Memories of a Massacre Project: Memphis in 1866. This...

February 11, 2016

#MemphisMassacre1866: The Time That Memphis Burned

This post is part of the Memories of a Massacre Project: Memphis in 1866. This...

January 2016

January 20, 2016

#MLKDay: The New Wine of #BlackLivesMatter

On January 17, 2016, drawing from John 2:1-11, my King Day sermon focused on King's...

January 05, 2016

Engaged Scholarship: God, the Movement, and the Spirituality of Ferguson

On November 20, 2015, the Spiritual Communication Division of the National Communication Association selected me...

December 2015

December 29, 2015

#TamirRice: A Prayer of Lament

This morning as I was doing my devotion I ran across Psalm 10. As I...

December 15, 2015

#MemphisMassacre1866: #DanielHoltzclaw: Doing It Like Its 1866

On Thursday, December 10, a jury found former Police Officer Daniel Holtzclaw guilty of multiple counts...

November 2015

November 25, 2015

Why I Am Boycotting Christmas

In what would become his last public speech, Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, in Memphis, Tennessee, told...

November 24, 2015

“We Young, We Strong, We Do it All Night Long”: #HipHop and the #Ferguson Resistance

Below is a paper I presented for the "Exploring Hip Hop Beyond its Beats and...

October 2015

October 25, 2015

President Obama and #BlackLivesMatter

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

October 09, 2015

Getting to Write and Getting it Right: A Re-Write on #DarriusStewart

Recently, I wondered aloud and asked, "Do We Even Care" about the death of Darrius...

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...

October 04, 2015

#DarriusStewart: Do We Even Care?

It has been nearly three months since the death of Darrius Stewart here in Memphis,...

September 2015

September 30, 2015

Anyone Feeling Closure After the Death of #KellyGissendaner?

In light of the State of Georgia killing Kelly Gissendaner "in our name," I am...

September 27, 2015

#BlackLivesMatter and its Clash with #RespectabilityPolitics

Our editor, Dr. Andre E. Johnson, was the guest on The Agenda with Christian Kirk....

August 2015

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

#DarriusStewart: A View from the Ground

At a recent Darrius Stewart rally, Ronald Herd of WeAllBeTV , interviewed Tami Sawyer, Paul Garner,...

July 2015

July 30, 2015

Where Are the Good Cops When We Need Them?

University of Cincinnati Police officer Ray Tensing shot and killed an unarmed black man...

July 29, 2015

Progressive Christianity and the #BlackLivesMatter Movement

Editors’ Note: This article is part of the Patheos Public Square on the Future of...

July 28, 2015

Color, Cops and Their Issues with Blackness

In the first clip, during a recent interview, R3 Founder and Managing Editor Andre E....

July 22, 2015

Memphis Has a Hashtag: #DarriusStewart; #JusticeForDarrius

I attended yet another prayer vigil for an unarmed African American shot and killed...

July 20, 2015

“They Make This World So Damn Uncomfortable”: The African American Prophetic Tradition

R3 founder and managing editor, Dr. Andre E. Johnson, will offer the Topics in Rhetoric seminar...

July 12, 2015

R3 and the Digital Humanities: The Henry McNeal Turner Project

Here at R3, we want to highlight some of the digital humanities and archival projects...

July 05, 2015

The Public Theologian: The Post Reconstruction Rhetoric of Bishop Henry McNeal Turner-Pt. 4

In recognition of the 100th anniversary of the death of Bishop Henry McNeal Turner...

June 2015

June 25, 2015

#CharlestonShooting: Race and Religion

R3 Managing Editor Andre E. Johnson, along with Dr. Charles McKinney and Rev. Earle Fisher,...

June 24, 2015

“My God My God”: The Foundation of Forgiveness-Pt. 2

*Below is a portion of the sermon I preached Sunday in response to the...

June 23, 2015

“Father Forgive Them”: The Foundation of Forgiveness-Pt. 1

*Below is a portion of the sermon I preached Sunday in response to the...

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