In the US, Black church leaders say public lands should better reflect African American history
United StatesRNS Growing up in Charleston, South Carolina, Rev Carey A Grady heard about the history of Emanuel African Methodist Episcopal Church and its connection to a slave revolt planned by Denmark Vesey – long before it was the site of a 2015 massacre. And Grady knew of the church through his father, the late […]
US faith and civil rights groups ask for FBI meeting on white nationalism
RNS A coalition of faith groups and civil rights organizations is asking to meet with the director of the FBI, arguing that after a string of attacks on houses of worship in recent years, the agency should focus on the threat of white nationalism. The coalition, which includes Muslim Advocates, the Union for Reform Judaism, […]