The Interview: Michele Clark Jenkins and Stephanie Perry Moore, co-editors of the Breathe Life Bible
ADELLE M BANKS, of Religion News Service, reports that after the death of George Floyd, a Black man killed by a white police officer, the co-editors of the new Bible say they felt compelled to do something…
“We will fight”, Harris says in MLK Day speech, warning of threats to US freedom
Columbia, South Carolina, US Reuters US Vice President Kamala Harris warned Americans that their freedom is under threat as she commemorated Martin Luther King Jr Day in early-voting South Carolina on Monday, wielding the civil-rights icon’s legacy to urge Black voters to join Democrats to win the 2024 election. Harris headlined an annual event by […]
The Interview: Rev Amos Brown, vice chair of California’s reparations task force, calls for action
ADELLE M BANKS, of Religion News Service, speaks with the civil rights veteran and onetime student of Rev Martin Luther King, Jr…
March on Washington events to focus on racial justice, police brutality, voting
RNS Over the years, throngs of protesters – many of them people of faith – have assembled to remember the March on Washington. This year, the gatherings will both resemble and differ from the first one on 28th August, 1963. Martin Luther King, Jr, addresses a crowd from the steps of the Lincoln Memorial where […]
Protests lead brands to speak out against racism. But will they act?
LondonThomson Reuters Foundation Major brands taking to social media to condemn racial inequalities have been challenged to back up their words with action to tackle a lack of black leadership in many firms and entrenched racial pay gaps in the United States. As protests against the death of an unarmed black man George Floyd at […]
In the US, black church, civil rights leaders urge churchgoers to continue to “tele-worship”
RNS Top officials of seven black Christian denominations have joined civil rights leaders in calling for people to stay home until it is safe in states whose governors are lifting shelter-in-place orders. “We regard this pandemic as a grave threat to the health and life of our people, and as a threat to the integrity […]
Black clergy in the US say NAACP on a “path toward irrelevancy”
RNS Rev Cornell William Brooks, NAACP President and CEO, speaks at the We Shall Not Be Moved Rally in Washington, D.C., in January, 2017. PICTURE: Creative Commons/Lorie Shaull The bishops of the African Methodist Episcopal Church are urging an overhaul of civil rights organisation, the NAACP, while acknowledging both historic black organisations need to find […]