Racism

Edward Gilbreath 3-10-2009
An article in the Chicago Tribune caught my attention this week.
Barby Zuniga Ward 2-26-2009
Most of my life I have been thinking about race and religion -- as a child when my family left my native Costa Rica to move to inner-city New Jersey, as a teenager struggling to develop my faith an
Eugene Cho 2-23-2009
Last week, I shared a post titled "http://blog.sojo.net/2009/02/19/eric-holder-on-america-and-race-a-nation..." href="https://sojo.net/%3Ca%20href%3D"http://blog.sojo.net/2009/02/19/eric-holder-on-america-and-r">http://blog.sojo.net/2009/02/19/eric-holder-on-america-and-r
Melvin Bray 2-19-2009
What?! Really... the editors of the New York Post thought this would work?

Cathleen Falsani 2-18-2009
Over brunch with my husband and one of my best guy friends last weekend, conversation turned, as it does, to Major League Baseball, doping and the nature of sin.

Troy Jackson 2-17-2009

I have been studying the civil rights movement for over a decade, and continue to be amazed by the stories of courage and sacrifice that marked that heroic era in United States history.

Alan Bean 2-17-2009
I moved to Tulia, Texas, in the summer of 1998, a year before a massive drug bust decimated the black side of town.
Jim Wallis 1-22-2009

It's a better country than I thought it was. I honestly wouldn't have thought this possible. I guess I would have agreed with the older generation of African Americans in my neighborhood: This day would never come in our lifetimes-but here it is.

Lynne Hybels 1-15-2009
In 2001, my husband Bill was jolted out of racial complacency.
Randy Woodley 1-12-2009
We stand at what could be the greatest divide in American history.
Duane Shank 1-08-2009
It is appropriate and necessary to criticize Israel's excessive military attacks in Gaza.
Joseph D'souza 12-22-2008
More people around the world will watch Barack Obama's inauguration than any other presidential inauguration in history.
Jimmy McCarty 11-24-2008

A family's pro-Obama banner was wrapped around a cross and burned in their front yard. According to Associated Press writer Jesse Washington, after Obama's election incidents of race based hate crimes escalated across the country. I guess, no matter the rhetoric of some commentators, we really aren't living in a post-racial country.

Seth Naicker 11-21-2008
Since the historic election of Nov. 4, I have been part of discussions with college students and faith-based institutions that have experienced racial tension and intolerance on their campuses.
Megan Greulich 11-13-2008
I live in a small but proud neighborhood in Saint Paul, called Rondo.
Alan Clapsaddle 11-11-2008
My wife and I were sitting watching the election returns come in on CNN. She was 'chatting' online with some of her friends.
Adam Russell Taylor 11-10-2008
Many have commented on how Senator Obama's election has the power and potential to recast and redeem America's image in the world, usher in a new style of politics rooted in bridge-building and pro
Jim Wallis 11-10-2008
Having talked to many friends since the election, I am conscious of how lots of us are still trying to let what happened sink in.