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Southern Baptists to Probe Richard Land’s Trayvon Martin Remarks Originally Posted: 04/19/2012 - 6:12pm | Type: Blog: Southern Baptist leaders will investigate whether their top ethicist and public policy director plagiarized racially charged remarks about the Trayvon Martin case that many say set back the denomination's e ...
Emancipation Day Originally Posted: 04/16/2012 - 3:54pm | Type: Blog: One-hundred and fifty years ago, April 16, 1862, President Abraham Lincoln signed the District of Columbia Emancipation Act, freeing more than 3,000 slaves within its borders. Today is ...
Fellowship with Black Suffering: We are Trayvon Martin Originally Posted: 04/04/2012 - 12:51pm | Type: Blog: To become black goes beyond a checkbox in a census data column. To become black is to enter into the experience of black pain – to enter a social, historical, yet living experience of a people group who were upr ...
Crossing the Racial Divide Originally Posted: 03/29/2012 - 1:06pm | Type: SojoMail: March 29, 2012 QUOTE OF THE WEEK "We still give food to ...
Is Lamb to the Slaughter the Best We've Got? Originally Posted: 03/29/2012 - 5:39pm | Type: Blog: My greatest fear for my children is the cautious regret I see on the many faces that can’t help but leave open the possibility there may be some justification for the Trayvon Martin tragedy. ...
TED Talk: Bryan Stevenson - We need to talk about an injustice Originally Posted: 03/09/2012 - 12:45pm | Type: Blog: Bryan Stevenson, founder and executive director of Equal Justice Initiative, shares stories about America's justice system and illustrates the imbalance of justice along racial lines. ...
When the Spirit Says Go Originally Posted: 02/10/2012 - 2:29pm | Type: Magazine Article: Michelle Alexander The fight against mass incarceration is joined by an emerging faith-based movement. SEVERA ...
Why Did Two Wild Goose Contributors Spend the Night in Jail? Originally Posted: 07/14/2011 - 8:35am | Type: Blog: North Carolina, host state for the inaugural <a href="http://wildgoosefestival.org/" target="_blank">Wild Goose Festival</a>, has many things going for it. ...
The Cincinnati Riots and the Racism That Remains Originally Posted: 07/14/2011 - 8:35am | Type: Blog: Ten years ago, Timothy Thomas died from a gunshot fired by a police officer in Over-the-Rhine -- a neighborhood in Cincinnati, Ohio. Ten years ago, Timothy Thomas died from a gunshot f ...
Wisconsin Strengthens Ties Between Labor and Environment Originally Posted: 07/14/2011 - 8:35am | Type: Blog: Corporations have long used the false rhetoric of "jobs versus the environment" to pit what would be natural allies -- environmentalists and labor activists -- against one another. ...