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September 2016

September 27, 2016

#WhiteChurchQuiet: When Silence is Not Golden

When I started #WhiteChurchQuiet, I had no idea that so many would not only follow...

August 2016

August 21, 2016

White Policing of Black Emotions

by Jervette R. Ward I have an academic friend, Charles, who was recently told by...

May 2016

May 30, 2016

Day Two: Memories of a Massacre: Memphis in 1866 Symposium

On May 20-21, 2016, the University of Memphis hosted “Memories of a Massacre: Memphis...

May 17, 2016

“There They Come; They Will Kill Me for Sure!”: The Victims of the Massacre

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

April 2016

April 14, 2016

Burned Alive: The Lynch Murder, Mutilation and Mayhem of Ell Persons

On Tuesday, April 12 the American Inns of Court in Memphis, Tennessee invited me and...

March 2016

March 29, 2016

Why Did White Mobs Burn Black Churches in the Memphis Massacre

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

March 21, 2016

#SandyStillSpeaks: Remembering #SandraBland

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

March 12, 2016

Rendering Unto Caesar: Black Churches Remain Sites of Political Opportunism

by Earle Fisher First Posted in the Tri-State Defender We see it every election cycle....

March 10, 2016

What Do You Do When Your Pastor Supports #DonaldTrump?

On Saturday, March 5, 2016, at a Donald Trump Rally in Orlando, Pastor Paula White...

March 04, 2016

Has America Ever Been Great: Donald Trump and the Making of America

by Kenneth A. Vandergriff The rise of Donald Trump in the Presidential Race baffles me. ...

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...

January 2016

January 16, 2016

Why I Ain’t Afraid of No ISIS

I'm not saying that ISIS is not real. I'm just saying that my life is...

January 04, 2016

What Must White Churches Do To Be Saved?

In today’s racially, socially and economically unjust environment, the voices of white theologians like Jennifer...

December 2015

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...

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 09, 2015

Will Black Men Ever #SayHerName?

We are here; we are here riding for you. We are here, from history and...

December 08, 2015

#DonaldTrump: Mothering in the Time of Trump

by Najeeba Syeed My seven year old told me this story this morning, "A first...

November 2015

November 25, 2015

#400Days Later: The Killing of #LaQuanMcDonald

By Fredrick D. Robinson By now you have probably seen the harrowing footage of Officer...

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 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 16, 2015

On the Necessary Tension between Rhetoric and Journalism

by Amanda Nell Edgar The situation at the University of the Missouri is complicated, full...

November 15, 2015

The Power of Love

by Jonathan Butler Waking up to death threats, violent remarks, cyber bullying, and hate mail...

November 12, 2015

What’s Our Excuse Now?

There is a story circulating in social media that Jonathan Butler, the graduate student who...

November 10, 2015

At What Point Do We Shut It Down?

by Lisa Sharon Harper *Note: President Tim Wolfe resigned as president of the University of...

November 09, 2015

Do We Really Believe Race is an Issue?

by Dameon E. Madison For the past few months my heart has weighed heavy for our...

November 03, 2015

“Those Who Have Ears, Let Them Hear”: #BlackLivesMatter and the Gospel

In 1968, theologian James Cone wrote what was then and still is a much contested...

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...

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...

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