racial justice
Episode 21: Activist and scholar Jemar Tisby, author of How to Fight Racism: Young Reader's Edition
A conversation with activist and New York Times bestselling author Jemar Tisby about racism, the concept of race, how to work for racial justice, and more
Elle Dowd’s firsthand account of the Ferguson uprising
A memoir of a White moderate’s repentance
Episode 6: Heart work | A conversation with Jennifer Baskerville-Burrows
"Understanding how racism really, really works, and seeing it as not just a social justice issue but a theological imperative, means that we have to talk about it and work on it all the time.”
Teaching children about racism
Anyone who cries “it’s not fair!” is old enough to learn about racial inequality.
A pair of museums are reckoning with Mississippi’s racist past
But they don't say enough about racism in the present.
Indulgence: Essays by readers
We gave our readers a one-word writing prompt: “indulgence.”
Talking about racism on a college bus trip
The tension was palpable. Then a white student stood up and said something I've never forgotten.
Half a century after the Kerner report, Americans are still separate and unequal
The problem isn't that government efforts to address inequality don't work. It's that they were only haltingly tried.
The military doesn't own the American flag
The controversy over athletes kneeling during the national anthem reveals America's unholy trinity of patriotism, militarism, and sports.
The role of county prosecutors in mass incarceration
John Pfaff's Locked In adds to what we've learned from Michelle Alexander's The New Jim Crow.
Other kinds of others: A Chapel Hill church redefines open and affirming
It was the congregation's pro-LGBTQ stance that brought Robbyn Davis-Ellison's family to United Church. The commitment to racial justice kept them there.
Alternative realities
John of Patmos presents readers of Revelation with fantastical visions of what life could be, just as Dickens does to Scrooge.
Someone else's liberation
Reading Exodus together with Isabel Wilkerson reminds me that the biblical story is not told from my point of view.
Full humanity: Black Lives Matter symposium
In the civil rights movement, language of political participation was central. BLM activists are making a more profound demand.
Lent as a white Christian during Black History Month
Lent is early this year, so it coincides with Black History Month for a full 18 days.
This overlap of sacred and secular calendars proves doubly sacred for Christians in the U.S. The sacred journey of Lent leads us to the cross—at the end of Jesus’ life of healing ministry and preaching good news to the poor. The sacred journey of Black History Month leads us to the lynching tree—as well as to African American innovators such as the man who developed modern blood storage and transfusion.
Policing and race
Scandal and New Girl are not ordinarily “about” race. But as national conversations on police violence intensify, they’ve stepped into the discussion.