People of faith aren’t exempt from facing each generation’s political and ideological battles.
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Daughter of Prominent Civil Rights Pastor Says the Church Must Re-Commit to Social Gospel
The institutional church, which has largely embraced the prosperity gospels, must return to its original social justice commitment, says Jennifer Jones Austin.
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Boarding School Graduate’s Search for Answers Leads to Washitaw ‘Nation,’ Jail
Kush Atum-Bey knew some complications were inevitable when he proclaimed himself a member of the Washitaw Mu’ur Nation, no longer subject to American law.
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Biafra: Nigeria Has Failed To Learn From Past Mistakes
I was probably eight the first time I heard about Biafra. It was from an Igbo classmate in elementary school who whispered how “our people” had tried to create their own land, but the Hausas wouldn’t let them.
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Walter Fauntroy Vows to Return from UAE to Face Legal, Financial Troubles
Walter E. Fauntroy, the former District delegate to Congress and civil rights legend who left Washington in 2012 for the Persian Gulf — leaving his aging wife in debt and eluding a criminal charge in Maryland — vowed in his first interview in four years that he is coming home next week.
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‘I’m Just Not Ready to Forgive:’ One Family Member Reflects on Charleston Massacre a Year Later
One year ago today, nine worshipers were callously executed during an evening Bible study at the Emanuel African Methodist Episcopal Church in Charleston, South Carolina.
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African-American Churches Worth More to Austin Than Their Land Value
As I toured the trendy Bouldin Creek neighborhood — west of South Congress Avenue and just south of Lady Bird Lake — I could see remnants of a once-thriving black community of freed slaves who lived in this area following the Civil War and into the 1950s.
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Jimmy Carter Makes One Final Push to End Racism – KOLUMN Magazine
The former president wants his fellow Christians to lead the country to reconciliation. But churches are in a period of profound uncertainty.
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A Black American Artist Explores Her Refusal of Christianity
“Direct Downward Cut at the Head; Overhand Knife Thrust”; “and where the blood ran fastest, there he whipped”; “To them God has appeared as a Negro”; “syntactical slips and breaks”
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The Brotherhood of Moses the Black
When Karl Berry walked into an Orthodox Church for the first time in 1983, he saw icons of black saints.
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