Canadian Baptists Push Race Conversation Beyond Black History Month
With new president, Atlantic churches seek fuller reckoning with complicated history. Read full piece
Liberal Black Church PAC Frustrated about Lack of Black Biden Nominees
The liberal Black Church PAC is upset that presumptive President-elect Joseph R. Biden‘s burgeoning slate of top-ranking appointments includes few Black nominees.Read full piece
DC Pastor on the Role of Diversity in Places of Worship
Rachel Martin speaks with Pastor Irwyn L. Ince Jr. of the Grace DC Institute for Cross Cultural Mission about the role racially diverse churches could play in fostering social justice.
Racial Resentment Varies Widely Among Religious Groups
Measuring people’s true attitudes toward racial issues on surveys has long been one of the most difficult problems that social scientists face. A news story about police beating a black man could be written off as an aberration or an isolated incident. It’s becoming harder
Without Annual Meeting, Amid Decline, Southern Baptists Continue Debate on Race, Women’s Roles
The Southern Baptist Convention will not hold its annual meeting as it regularly does each June. But issues its members have long grappled with — including race and the roles of women — continue to be points of controversy in the nation’s largest Protestant denomination.
Baylor Prof Explores How Movies Shape Attitudes Toward Race
From "The Birth of a Nation," the 1915 silent movie some historians blame for a resurgence of the Ku Klux Klan, to Spike Lee’s "BlacKkKlansman" more than 100 years later, movies have reflected and shaped Americans’ attitudes toward race, said Baylor University professor Greg Garrett.
Kneeling to Venerate Hate: The Meaning of a Police Killing in Minnesota
Kneeling, in most of the world’s religions, is an act of worship and veneration for a deity or its mythic representatives. On Monday (May 25) in Minneapolis, a white police officer kneeled on the neck of a black man named George Floyd, who was already
COVID-19 Virus Puts a Spotlight on Inequality and Racism
While the coronavirus is an equal opportunity killer, the poor and people of color are disproportionately suffering and dying from COVID-19. These communities were least prepared to respond to the virus for reasons rooted in racism and inequality.
We Don’t Know What’s Behind the COVID-19 Racial Disparity. And That’s a Problem.
COVID-19 is killing black Americans with horrifying precision. Black Americans get the disease at a higher rate than white people do. When you account for age, black mortality is 3.57 times white mortality. Outrage is warranted. But outrage unaccompanied by analysis is a danger in
Kirk Franklin: ‘Kumbaya Moments’ Are Not Enough for Better Race Relations
Gospel singer Kirk Franklin, in a discussion to be broadcast this week on Trinity Broadcasting Network, called on white Christian leaders to move beyond “kumbaya moments” and to speak from the pulpit when black people are the subjects of “social injustice happening in the streets.”