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Monique W. Morris’s advocacy for Black girls and educational equity
The world sees Black girls as dangerous. Morris shows them that they are scholars.
Danté Stewart’s letter to America
Shoutin’ in the Fire is a testimony to Black liberation and love.
An evangelical Christian argument for reparations
Duke Kwon and Gregory Thompson want to talk about theft.
by Dave Allen
Addressing educational inequity means loving other people’s children
Courtney Martin invites progressive parents to reckon with racial justice.
by Liuan Huska
The power of a swim-in
In 1964, Mimi Ford jumped into a pool—and changed the course of history.
Birthing you is an act of radical hope
Accepting the call to Black motherhood without averting my eyes from the spectacle of Black death
Drawing close to Howard Thurman
Two new books invite us to learn from what others have loved about the civil rights icon.
Want to challenge White supremacy? Here’s a good place to start.
Kerry Connelly and Layla F. Saad offer primers for White people in various stages of antiracism journeys.
by Jane McBride
Take & Read: Theology
Four new books that are shaping theological conversations
selected by Jason Micheli
Take & Read: Old Testament
Four new books about biblical texts and their reception
selected by Amy Erickson
What kind of justice did Derek Chauvin’s trial achieve?
The verdict of a court is not the final verdict of a society.
Episode 5: Embodied and boundless | A conversation with Zenju Earthlyn Manuel
“Practicing to be a contemplative," says Zen priest Sensei Zenju, "you’re learning to be embodied and to be boundless at the same time.”
A civil rights pilgrimage through the eyes of Congolese refugee teenagers
We began to understand why James Baldwin called US history “more beautiful and more terrible than anyone has ever said about it.”
by Ashley Makar
Episode 4: Becoming a truth teller | A conversation with Sophfronia Scott
In the private journals of contemplative thinker Thomas Merton, Sophronia Scott found guidance for how to live in these fraught times.
Donna Haskins defeats the devil
Onaje X. O. Woodbine’s book about a Black woman’s life is a model of ethnographic work that centers the voice of its subject.
A Black scholar’s challenge to White evangelicals
Anthea Butler is clear about the disastrous legacy of racism at the heart of White evangelicalism.