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June 2018

June 17, 2018

Dislocations and Shutdowns: #MLK, #BLM and the Rhetoric of Confrontation

On April 4, 2018, America commemorated the 50th year anniversary of the death of Martin...

March 2018

March 16, 2018

The Fallacy of Racial Reconciliation

Unrolled thread from @aejohnsonphd #MLK50 #BlackLivesMatter #WhiteChurchQuiet #EmptyThePews Donate to the Work of R3 Like...

March 10, 2018

Black Folks Get Woke on #WhiteEvangelical Churches and Leave

On Friday, March 9, 2018, the New York Times published a story addressed what the...

February 2018

February 22, 2018

Plantation Jesus: Race, Faith and a New Way Forward

Not long ago, most white American Christians believed that Jesus blessed slavery. God wasn't bothered...

November 2017

November 04, 2017

Race, Whiteness, and the Gospel

On Friday, November 3, 2017, Tom Fuerst engaged his Facebook followers in a threaded discussion...

July 2017

July 16, 2017

Two Years Later: Remembering Sandra Bland

by Toniesha Taylor July 16, 2015, was the day students started coming to my office...

June 2017

June 27, 2017

When Demons Are Not Discussed

In the 5th Chapter of the Luke’s Gospel, we find a particular passage of scripture....

June 16, 2017

When Juries Cannot See Black People as Human

Today a jury in Minnesota (not Mississippi or Memphis) acquitted former officer Jeronimo Yanez in...

May 2017

May 21, 2017

The Lynching of Ell Persons

On March 23, 2017, I gave a speech at Central High School in Memphis, Tennessee....

April 2017

April 12, 2017

White Silence and the Making of #WhiteChurchQuiet

On Monday Night April 3, 2017, the Center for Community Service and Justice at Loyola...

December 2016

December 07, 2016

Trevor Noah and False Notions of Understanding

by Matt Vega I wish white liberals would stop telling us the election of Trump...

November 2016

November 25, 2016

Do We Even Care: A Conversation on Race and Racial Tensions?

Below is a speech I gave at New Bethel Baptist Church on November 1, 2016...

October 2016

October 15, 2016

#SayHerName Comes to Memphis

by Deven Lyle Outside of Planned Parenthood’s Greater Memphis area location, members of the Say...

September 2016

September 30, 2016

When the Rocks Cry Out

by Ebony Adedayo On Wednesday, I awoke to the news that Bethel University's St....

September 28, 2016

#WhiteChurchQuiet: Reconciling the Faith

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September 27, 2016

#WhiteChurchQuiet: When Silence is Not Golden

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

September 04, 2016

Black People and the Forgiving of White Racists

by Benjamin Short This happened recently while tailgating for Memphis. Tent next to ours was...

August 2016

August 24, 2016

Hello, My Name is Randall and I am a Racist

by Randall Mullins A friend of mine decided to begin a group to talk about...

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...

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 19, 2016

White Fear and the Hate Next Door

by Hannah Adair Bonner First Posted at SoulUnbound Recently a Facebook Group was brought to...

February 2016

February 11, 2016

The Inconvenient Truth of a Theological Amnesia

by Dameon E. Madison For some weeks now, I have been struggling, attempting to organize...

January 2016

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 29, 2015

#TamirRice: 10 Things White People Can Do

by Amber Johnson The contextual and physical resemblance between Tamir Rice and Emmett Till is...

December 09, 2015

An Urgent Message to the Church

by Traci Blackmon We simply must respond to this heightened and hateful display of Islamaphobia...

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 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...

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