Justice, Health & Community Work

16+ hour, 43+ min ago   (381+ words) That’s certainly a claim Arizona pastor Dale Partridge is facing fierce backlash online after saying he would not allow his daughter to marry a Black Christian man because he believes interracial marriage could lower the intelligence of his descendants. The…...

1+ day, 6+ hour ago   (482+ words) This is also different from the Black Judas and the Black Minstrel I described before. Those two are easy to spot. The House Negro sits down at the table and talks to you like a friend. It did not start…...

1+ day, 19+ hour ago   (425+ words) Black Americans have heard it all before. We’ve been called “lazy,” “not as qualified,” “uneducated,” “uncultured,” and all manner of other reasons the world can come up with for why our disenfranchisement is somehow of our own design and perpetuation....

3+ day, 4+ hour ago   (888+ words) During a trip to South Africa last year, I visited the Apartheid Museum in Johannesburg. In one section, a wall lists the various laws under apartheid. Today, it seems unimaginable that such laws ever existed. Almost all public facilities such…...

2+ day, 14+ hour ago   (216+ words) Selling Black Americans What They Already Own I am a direct descendant of Black people subjected to The Enslavement in the United States. But I am not FBA. Today, some would … The Cult of Ethnicity: Selling Black Americans What They…...

4+ day, 2+ hour ago   (328+ words) MEMPHIS — The African American Clergy Collective of Tennessee (ACCT), in partnership with faith-based, community, and civic organizations across Tennessee, announces a Statewide Souls to the Polls initiative on Saturday, October 17, 2026. In Memphis, four anchor churches have been identified: One Community....

4+ day, 4+ hour ago   (679+ words) NOTE: This piece was originally published at our newsletter A Public Witness. “We are here because human dignity matters. Truth matters. Community matters. Freedom matters. Democracy matters. And democracy only works when every voice has the power to be heard....

6+ day, 18+ hour ago   (879+ words) 12:39 AM / Sunday October 4, 2026 One could imagine the echoing voices of the ancestors at the 2026 Colored Conventions Conference at Mother Bethel AME Church this past September. An urgency seemed to ripple through conference guests, perhaps akin to that felt by delegates…...

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1+ week, 2+ day ago   (612+ words) After Donald Trump won the presidency in 2016, the New York Times reported the story simply: Black Christians left white evangelical congregations, exhausted by pastors who prayed for Paris and Brussels, but went silent on police shootings of Black Americans. This…...