The tropes that birth the hero
It is admirable that Bonhoeffer endeavors to highlight Black life. But one must be careful that the Black life of one’s representation is not playing in the dark of caricatured Black people.
Tyre Nichols’s killing is not an exception
Police violence against Black citizens is written into the script of American culture.
A letter to my Black daughter after the fall of Roe
Your body is not a public domain.
How do we grieve the hundreds of thousands of people the COVID-19 pandemic has killed?
We posed this question to five writers.
White supremacy is a script we’re given at birth
It’s written in our flesh and rehearsed throughout history.
Seeing whiteness: Exercises in understanding race
I used to lead activities like the "Privilege Walk" and "Cross the Line." I couldn't shake the feeling that they were not taking us very far.
The language of liberation: Black Lives Matter symposium
Disaster is understandable for black lives—they are antagonists in a narrative of humanity written to serve white supremacy. To say "black lives matter" is to interrupt this story.
Reggie Williams's Christmas picks
Kelly Brown Douglas is an accomplished scholar with a prophetic theological voice that speaks to Christians in the pews and the theological academy....