https://politicalresearch.org/ The latest research related to trayvon martin en https://religiondispatches.org/2013/12/12/fight-death-and-go-hungry-hunger-games-camp Inmates at Guantanamo Bay are hunger striking in an attempt to make their suffering visible while children at a camp in Florida are using the fantasy of hunger as entertainment. Thu, 12 Dec 2013 06:11:43 EST Jodi Eichler-Levine 27e9007e-e090-4485-b99d-8bf540678844 https://religiondispatches.org/2013/08/09/pray-or-protest-bothand-ness-black-christianity I want to argue that we need to have a more expansive understanding of black religious identities, an understanding that Womanist Theologians have already pushed us toward, an understanding that does not compartmentalize black religious thought and responses into shallow categories like “right/conservative/prayerful” and “left/academic/protester”; categories that are too small, too static, and too constricting for us to comprehend the diversity of black religious lives and black political activity. Fri, 09 Aug 2013 01:15:00 EDT Jamall Andrew Calloway 4c31f5f5-8123-4ef1-a98e-561be7e9f832 https://religiondispatches.org/2013/07/23/christian-atheism-only-response-worth-its-salt-zimmerman-verdict Anthea Butler caught flack for arguing the Zimmerman verdict exposed that a god-complex tied to white supremacy remains powerfully at work within U.S. society. She’s right, but I propose that the only religious response is to be atheist. Tue, 23 Jul 2013 08:11:01 EDT J. Kameron Carter 0ec8c127-1a9c-4205-9de0-4f735da46ecb https://religiondispatches.org/2013/07/17/what-does-it-mean-call-god-white-racist American Christians must take on the difficult work of understanding how whiteness has been woven like a cancer into their Christianity. Wed, 17 Jul 2013 06:03:52 EDT Willie James Jennings 3d108bc1-37fc-46fb-80f0-0655b3d6de37 https://religiondispatches.org/2013/07/16/zimmerman-acquittal-americas-racist-god God ain’t good all of the time. Tue, 16 Jul 2013 05:11:15 EDT Anthea Butler cb3813fe-1444-4ea5-8a27-c32eb8cb49fb https://religiondispatches.org/2013/07/16/why-i-fear-post-trayvon-martin-sermon I’m not meant to feel that the Good Samaritan parable is “helpful” to me. I’m meant to feel indicted along with the legal expert, the bandits on the road, and the smug élites who pass by the wounded victim while posting links to savvy articles in the New Yorker and the Atlantic on the verdict in the Trayvon Martin murder trial. Tue, 16 Jul 2013 02:40:21 EDT Elizabeth Drescher a82f3402-a903-4a51-ad0b-9f2a78b857d7 https://religiondispatches.org/2012/04/23/baptist-blogger-who-discovered-land-plagiarism-says-investigation-unprecedented Will the Southern Baptists’ point man in Washington lose his key demographic—journalists? Mon, 23 Apr 2012 11:31:03 EDT Sarah Posner afd88f42-7708-4ad0-ac99-8ffdd917b7eb https://religiondispatches.org/2012/03/28/escorted-house-floor-reading-scripture-hoodie Wait, I thought Republicans liked politicians to read the Bible! Wed, 28 Mar 2012 12:49:30 EDT Sarah Posner 23d88747-6222-4721-8932-433d6929c642 https://religiondispatches.org/2012/03/23/trayvon-martin-and-american-exceptionalism Can the exceptionalism that has shielded racism be used to defeat it? Fri, 23 Mar 2012 02:45:06 EDT Mark Hulsether db5b2494-77e7-4b8b-abae-735604e33ffe https://religiondispatches.org/2012/03/22/trayvon-martin-and-american-exceptionalism Is a black person’s life worth anything in America? Not as long as America remains “Exceptional.” Thu, 22 Mar 2012 10:02:21 EDT Anthea Butler 5b9d1760-2158-4c0b-9a2c-8a99d5b5008c https://religiondispatches.org/2012/03/22/if-trayvon-martin-were-my-son-his-killer-would-be-jail-now Trayvon, the Toulouse murders, and the sanctity of childhood. Thu, 22 Mar 2012 09:47:55 EDT Joanna Brooks 7a19acf5-c2fd-4a2b-aa10-81ceecdee9c3