Addressing historic racism: Faithful Black descendants hope reparations after Florida massacre will be a model
ADELLE M BANKS, of Religion News Service, reports on how moves to offer reparations for an historic massacre in the little-known majority-Black enclave of Rosewood, Florida, is being seen as a model for others…
Sculpture honours first Black president of an American college
Rutland, Vermont, USAP The first Black president of an American college is being honoured with a sculpture installed in the Vermont city where he was born in 1826. The larger-than-life marble bust of Martin Henry Freeman, a scholar, sits on a stack of books in a downtown square as part of the Rutland Sculpture Trail. […]
Essay: White evangelicals, don’t just condemn Christian nationalism. Own it
In an article first published on Religion News Service, ANTHEA BUTLER, author and interim chair of religious studies and associate professor of religion and Africana studies at the University of Pennsylvania, says it’s time for US evangelicals to address the racism undergirding Christian nationalism…
Equal access?: As COVID-hit Brits escape to the country, minorities face rural racism
LIN TAYLOR, of Thomson Reuters Foundation, reports on concerns in the UK that green spaces are not easily accessible to all…
Essay: How did voter access become a faith issue? The Bible told us so.
JIM WALLIS, founder of Sojourners and a co-convenor of Lawyers & Collars, writes about why protecting the image of God in the upcoming US election means “protecting the voting rights of Americans of colour, whose votes some are trying to suppress and even intimidate – deliberately and strategically”…
Essay: Brazil’s Bolsonaro has COVID-19 – and so do thousands of Indigenous people who live days from the nearest hospital
In an article first published on The Conversation, NADIA RUBAII, co-director of Binghamton University’s Institute for Genocide and Mass Atrocity Prevention, and JULIO JOSÉ ARAUJO JUNIOR, a PhD student in Rio, say the coronavirus pandemic is the latest deadly threat to face the South American nation’s Indigenous people…
Sight-Seeing: My generation failed to deal with racism
US Catholic commentator THOMAS REESE, in an article first published in Religion News Service, expresses his hopes the next generation can do better in addressing the issue of racism in the US…
THE INTERVIEW: MICHAEL PACK, PRODUCER OF A NEW DOCUMENTARY SHINING A LIGHT ON US SUPREME COURT JUSTICE CLARENCE THOMAS’ FAITH
ADELLE M BANKS, of Religion News Service, speaks to Michael Pack, the man behind a new documentary in which the often reticient US Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas talks about his longtime Catholic faith…
RACE: IN THE US, MULTI-RACIAL CHURCHES ARE GROWING BUT IT’S STILL CHALLENGING FOR CLERGY OF COLOUR
As the US prepares to mark Martin Luther King Day on 20th January, ADELLE M BANKS, of Religion News Service, reports on the “burgeoning movement” to integrate Christian worship services in the US…
SOUTH AFRICA: “DISPOSSESSED” URBAN POOR CALL FOR LAND REFORM
KEVIN MWANZA, of Thomson Reuters Foundation, reports…