Internet surfing on Saturday revealed that the NAACP had elected its new leader – Benjamin Todd Jealous, a Rhodes Scholar and Human Rights Activist. Jealous at age 35 is the youngest President and CEO in the 99 year history of the organization. Not knowing Mr. Jealous, there are two things that struck me at...
We’ve seen this movie before. Philadelphia police officers – more than a dozen of them assaulted 3 Black men – Dwayne Dyches, Brian Hall and Pete Hopkins over allegations that they were involved in a shooting earlier in the day. The officers caught up with them and decided to play judge and jury, but...
Dr. Joy DeGruy Leary, author of Post Traumatic Slave Syndrome: America’s Enduring Legacy of Injury and Healing, addresses the residual impacts of trauma on African Descendants in the Americas. Post Traumatic Slave Syndrome lays the groundwork for understanding how the past has influenced the present, and opens up the discussion of how we can...
Hat Tip: Christian Post By Anne Thomas Christian Post Correspondent March 3, 2008 The Poverty and Justice Bible, the latest release from Bible Society, has broken new ground as the first ever to literally highlight the more than 2,000 passages that reveal God’s sorrow over poverty and injustice, and His command to believers to...
I think it was Dr. Na’im Akbar who, in one of his books, makes distinction between being “informed” and being “aware” (or conscious). To be informed means at the very basic level that you’ve been exposed to a body of information. Not necessarily that you really grasp the meaning of what you’ve been exposed...
My Saturday didn’t work out exactly like I planned it. The culmination of the day was supposed to have me sitting with my brothers and sisters at the School of Original Thought to hear The Plan which was produced by the Zero Murder Rate Movement. However, I never made it to the meeting. An...
Just in case somebody out there stumbles across this blog today; I thought I’d provide a friendly reminder that Christopher Columbus did not discover “America”. (How do you “discover” a place where others have already taken up residence?) Columbus was actually a genocidal murderer who helped to spread European imperialism and usher in the...
I picked this book up at the recommendation of the president of the Interdenominational Ministerial Alliance, Dr. William Calhoun. I’m approximately two chapters into the book and am thoroughly enjoying Dr. McMickle’s position that far too many preachers and churches today have laid down the cross of justice in order to pick up the...
This is really an intriguing and thought provoking read. So interesting in fact, that I bought it as a birthday present for my 15 year old brother who is having some struggles in AP European History. Loewen suggests that the way American History is taught in American schools is boring to students and devalues...
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