racism

Evoking the murders of unarmed black men, this collection is meant to appall us.

R.J. Maratea argues that lynching declined when white people began to realize that the courtroom would work just as well.

The story of James Thompson and David Simpson is one of many that cry out for an acknowledgment of wrongs done.

Cottom interrogates her own story loudly enough for others to hear themselves in it.

Two new books offer an education—with grace and humor.

“It’s not that Southerners don’t get racial issues. We just don’t get them right.”

Personal conversion is part of social change, but we can’t end our stories there.

“No one is born with racist ideas. People consume them, as others produce them to justify racist policies.”

"By building social capacity, communities can respond to their own issues rather than rely on responses from the criminal justice system."

Two memoirs by men who endured decades of criminal injustice before being exonerated

It’s not our problem. Education can fix it. Only extremists are racist.

Real talk about racism requires getting past knee-jerk reactions.

Mona Hanna-Attisha and Anna Clark explore the crisis from inside and out.

Ramsey shows the high stakes (and common mistakes) of online activism.

Pastoral, prophetic, and political

I’ve re-watched the footage of Anita Hill.

Jesmyn Ward’s novel is a descent into hell on earth. I couldn't put it down.

Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz's social history highlights who's at the other end of the barrel.

Cannon created a womanist approach to theology and wove it through her vocation as a pastor, professor, and ethicist.

Christians helped create it. Can we help destroy it?