https://politicalresearch.org/ The latest research related to Black Lives Matter en https://religiondispatches.org/2021/04/21/beyond-white-reasonable-doubt-why-i-cannot-fully-celebrate-verdict-against-let-his-name “I was dreaming when I wrote this forgive me if it goes astray” – Prince I started writing this before the announcement of the verdict. I want to start writing while the angst, the fear, the anxiety is still very… Wed, 21 Apr 2021 10:09:10 EDT A. E. Brooks-Key 9d5f246a-b511-4d2a-9da6-0d42c0227d36 https://religiondispatches.org/2021/01/13/true-meaning-law-and-order-became-painfully-clear-january-6 “Be there, will be wild!” Trump tweeted at his supporters on December 19, thousands of whom showed up in Washington, DC, several weeks later at their leader’s urging. They climbed walls, waved Trump flags, and literally broke into the chambers… Wed, 13 Jan 2021 01:20:30 EST Jemar Tisby 8f069206-3b4a-4c61-b2a3-8c3ecff4e636 https://religiondispatches.org/2020/12/16/history-matters-400th-anniversary-plymouth-were-still-clinging-destructive-national Within William Bradford’s massive work, Of Plymouth Plantation, composed between 1630 and 1651 while he was occasional governor of the colony, there’s no mention of the eponymous rock upon which the pilgrims supposedly landed when they reached their permanent home… Wed, 16 Dec 2020 01:03:59 EST Ed Simon 195ba5e7-04de-4449-9b74-94dadb53d2d7 https://religiondispatches.org/2018/05/17/must-we-burn-something-get-attention-50-years-after-catonsville-nine Fifty years ago today, the Catonsville Nine burned draft files at the local draft board in Catonsville, Maryland. Two Catholic priests, Jesuit Daniel Berrigan and Josephite Philip Berrigan, along with seven others trespassed on government property, walking where private citizens… Thu, 17 May 2018 09:27:13 EDT Jason C. Bivins 2ecce100-b572-4bd6-9f3a-40dd7d8095b0 https://religiondispatches.org/2018/05/07/james-cones-death-comes-death-black-theology-0 With James Cone’s death, comes the death of Black theology. This statement is hyperbolic in that a variety of theologians—some trained by Cone and others not—will continue to write theological texts and teach black theology, and will do so in… Mon, 07 May 2018 11:38:15 EDT Anthony B. Pinn ebfbb308-1676-451c-a9b1-4ba32b7481c7 https://religiondispatches.org/2018/05/07/james-cones-death-comes-death-black-theology While the socio-political, economic, and cultural climate motivating the work has shifted—the fundamental and death-dealing disregard for black life has remained unaltered. Mon, 07 May 2018 02:45:10 EDT Anthony B. Pinn 843e554a-208d-47a2-aef8-5305c87063c3 https://religiondispatches.org/2017/10/13/tell-me-what-you-believe-about-ferguson-and-ill-tell-you-what-you-believe-about-god Three years post-uprising, the community still struggles to be seen. Fri, 13 Oct 2017 04:40:23 EDT Anita Little 5f8f4eae-d124-492e-bf1a-e0263401fe14 https://religiondispatches.org/2017/02/07/revolution-will-not-be-fetishized-taking-resistance-beyond-spiritual-industrial-complex There is a difference between gestural subversion and collective resistance. Tue, 07 Feb 2017 09:52:24 EST Andrea R. Jain 8ee24eb6-f3ed-4b1a-bb18-8e48a3c22471 https://religiondispatches.org/2016/12/20/solstice-devotional-faithless-trumps-america My prayer for 2017, then, is simple: I pray that we, the people, live up to the brave and beautiful example the rebels, the resisters, and the agitators have set for us. Tue, 20 Dec 2016 03:24:10 EST Sunnivie Brydum b6b40059-6433-4ad1-a56f-eff5213cfbb4 https://religiondispatches.org/2016/11/29/why-so-many-american-christians-dont-understand-protest We would do well to remember that our good news first came as an act of divine protest in the body of a poor, brown baby born in a barn. Tue, 29 Nov 2016 10:03:04 EST Leah Pannell fbbedc5d-2b7e-4d2b-8d07-ccbf39c60aa9 https://religiondispatches.org/2016/09/14/hijabilivesmatter-burkini-ban-black-hair-and-meaning-natural A woman’s bare head in France is no more “neutral” than white skin in the U.S. Wed, 14 Sep 2016 03:00:17 EDT Shaina Hammerman 10798271-010e-4ed5-ad6e-fc579d2fb4d1 https://religiondispatches.org/2016/08/11/i-met-god-shes-black-exhibit-makes-black-female-body-temple The moment I entered the Black Woman is God exhibit in San Francisco’s SOMArts gallery, I knew I was on sacred ground. I found myself treading gingerly, trying not to disturb the spirits of ancestors that seemed to repose in… Thu, 11 Aug 2016 11:06:43 EDT Anita Little da16f093-f338-4182-90c6-74a4927c99eb https://religiondispatches.org/2016/07/11/america-willing-be-freed-its-demons There is a poignant story in the gospel of Mark where Jesus encounters a young man tormented by a demon. The boy’s father, who desperately wants Jesus’ disciples to help him, has reached the point of exhaustion. The disciples cannot… Mon, 11 Jul 2016 05:37:34 EDT Willie James Jennings 60a746a9-c69e-4002-a34e-755ddf7879c2 https://religiondispatches.org/2016/07/10/fire-time I know. You want me to say something profound, the hard thing. You want me to say something passionate, something to rally you, something to make you feel like there is hope, and that we’re going to change. But that’s not what this piece is about. Sun, 10 Jul 2016 12:19:22 EDT Anthea Butler a5261ba9-4829-4a5a-87c0-f2bd06a655cf https://religiondispatches.org/2016/02/25/we-all-we-got-black-church-oasis-baltimores-food-deserts Nearly a year has passed since Freddie Gray’s murder by Baltimore police officers ignited outcries that roiled my city for weeks. Though the camera crews have moved on and the curfew has been lifted, the protests kicked up a dust… Thu, 25 Feb 2016 10:50:44 EST Kasai Rex 3a6a80d8-a192-40c2-ad83-0bccd3dcbdec https://religiondispatches.org/2016/02/19/lets-get-formation-beyonces-spiritual-call-black-resistance I don’t like Beyoncé in the way that some people do—I am not a bee in the hive. I do, however, recognize greatness when I see it, and Beyoncé’s “Formation” is just that. Beyonce’s African and “Creole” ancestors haunt the… Fri, 19 Feb 2016 10:55:05 EST Yazmine Nichols 012b2809-ab1e-41b6-8fff-661b075217ae https://religiondispatches.org/2015/12/03/be-queer-gifted-and-black-conversation-theologian-pamela-lightsey “When we talk about Black Lives Matter, we’re talking about all black lives.” Thu, 03 Dec 2015 01:33:31 EST Nyasha Junior 358e9e2a-6d70-4fc1-b7be-b75e1b2ce1c3 https://religiondispatches.org/2015/08/20/racial-justice-will-be-top-priority-new-prez-united-church-christ A conversation with the Rev. John Dorhauer, incoming president of the United Church of Christ. Thu, 20 Aug 2015 06:08:21 EDT Frederick Clarkson a9ef89e7-552f-4b0e-ab6c-ba99f12fe13d https://religiondispatches.org/2015/06/24/role-spirit-blacklivesmatter-movement-conversation-activist-and-artist-patrisse-cullors As the nation mourned the deaths of nine murdered at Emanuel AME Church last week, the Black Lives Matter movement held its first national retreat. From around the country, activists came together in Detroit to discuss national strategy and share… Wed, 24 Jun 2015 06:12:46 EDT Hebah H. Farrag 2ce3b669-2047-40e3-8768-7dabab104459 https://religiondispatches.org/2014/12/24/what-theology-looks-disrupting-crucifying-system Protesters have taken to the streets this season to disrupt a system which perpetually declares black and brown lives less than human—a system that thrives on Wall Street, in congress, in institutions of higher education, and even in churches. Many… Wed, 24 Dec 2014 01:11:16 EST Jorge Juan Rodriguez V b901e2c0-fd94-46de-9e56-49d121653e51