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Racism & Anti-Immigrant

Racial inequality remains deeply embedded within U.S. social and economic structures and although the U.S. has long been considered “a nation of immigrants,” the question of who those immigrants are and where they come from, has provided fertile ground for exclusionary and bigoted policies for over 200 years. The projection that the U.S. will no longer be a majority White country sometime in the mid-21st century has reinvigorated White supremacist anxieties present in the U.S. since its founding. A well-funded and organized constellation of organizations with direct ties to racist eugenics and White nationalism are now at the forefront of efforts to slow this demographic trend.

Religion Dispatches
How sad and ironic that the revocation of citizen’s rights via Constitutional bans, is not on the SCLC’s radar. Is it a Movement or Museum?
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Religion Dispatches
In a recent Times Op-Ed neoconservative Edward Luttwak labeled Barack Obama “an apostate from Islam,” and that “would cause… complications in our dealings with the Islamic world,”
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By “celebrating” liberal victories years after they’re even remotely controversial, the religious right rewrites itself into history’s good book while continuing to play to the worst elements in our contemporary culture.
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In the new Russia, where Putin attends Easter services in the capital’s main cathedral, it seems the era of religious repression is over—except if you are a Protestant.
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Many churches have relied on migrant populations—but they are silent on immigration reform…
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I have learned as both a pastor and a member belonging to several minority groups—African-American, women, and lesbian—that a popular opinion on an issue does not always reflect the right choice.
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Can the jewel of black academia, the nation’s largest liberal arts college created to produce “exceptional black men,” continue to thrive while it fosters a deeply homophobic atmosphere?
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PBS’ The Jewish Americans covers three hundred fifty years of Jewish-American history with only a few glaring omissions.
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Religion Dispatches
On the 40th anniversary of his assassination, we honor Martin Luther King by refusing to ask: “What would King think?”
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Religion Dispatches
Anyone who thinks that full agreement with your pastor is necessary has never been to church…
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