Essay: Why Christian women are key to ending the criminalisation of Black girls in schools
EMILY JONES, executive for racial justice at United Women in Faith in the US, says, historically, Christian women have been particularly vocal advocates in educational spaces…
Some Republicans criticise Trump for meeting with white supremacist
Washington DC, USReuters Some Republicans on Sunday criticised Donald Trump for dining with white supremacist Nick Fuentes at the former President’s Mar-A-Lago resort in Florida, even as Trump said the encounter was inadvertent. Arkansas Republican Governor Asa Hutchinson accused Trump of empowering extremism. “I don’t think it’s a good idea for a leader who’s setting […]
In the US, Buffalo shooting latest example of targeted racial violence
AP Black people going about their daily lives – then dying in a hail of bullets fired by a white man who targeted them because of their skin colour. Substitute a supermarket in Buffalo, New York, with a church in South Carolina, and Malcolm Graham knows the pain and grief the families of those killed Saturday are feeling. […]
In the US, report finds white supremacist propaganda fell slightly in 2021; anti-Semitic disinformation grew
RNS Dissemination of white supremacist propaganda in the United States fell by five per cent in 2021, while specific anti-Semitic propaganda rose by 27 per cent, a new report by the Anti-Defamation League finds. The report – which collected instances of hate groups distributing or posting fliers, stickers, banners, pamphlets and graffiti – concluded that […]
Essay: Seven things white Christians can do to address white supremacy at church
ROBERT P JONES, founder of the Public Religion Research Institute in the US and the author of ‘White Too Long: The Legacy of White Supremacy in American Christianity’, outlines how churches can practically address white supremacy…
In the US, Senate run-off winner Warnock blasts Capitol rioters in first sermon since election
New York City, USAP In his first sermon since being declared a winner in Georgia’s US Senate runoff election, Rev Raphael Warnock on Sunday addressed last week’s deadly Capitol Hill riot that all but overshadowed his historic victory. “Just as we were trying to put on our celebration shoes, the ugly side of our story, […]
Race in the US: Trump’s legacy shadowed by divisive rhetoric, actions
DAVID CRARY, of Associated Press, reports on how the issue of race has playout during the Trump presidency…
ESSAY: MARTIN LUTHER KING, JR’S’, “DREAM” AND EMMETT TILL’S DEATH CAPTURE WARRING SOUL OF THE US
In an article first published on Religion News Service, author KELLY BROWN DOUGLAS, dean of the Episcopal Divinity School at Union Theological Seminary and the Canon Theologian at the Washington National Cathedral in the US, reflects on the “warring soul” of America…
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, […]
In the US, Southern Baptist seminary report ties founders to slaveholding, white supremacy
Louisville, Kentucky, USRNS Southern Baptist Theological Seminary, the Southern Baptist Convention’s flagship seminary, has released a report delineating its ties to slavery, including its four founders’ ownership of a total of more than 50 slaves. The 71-page report, released Wednesday, says the seminary’s early trustees and faculty “defended the righteousness of slaveholding”. Boyce College on […]