On February 12, 2019, one of America’s greatest writers and thinkers published what would be her parting gift for a world as desperate to hear her voice in 2019 as it was when she published her first novel The Bluest Eye in 1970. The Source of Self-Regard: Selected Essays, Speeches, and Meditations showcases Toni Morrison’s…
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The Interdenominational Theological Center Photograph Collection is now available!
Source: The Interdenominational Theological Center Photograph Collection is now available!
What Real Housewives of Potomac Taught Us About Race
THE REAL HOUSEWIVES OF POTOMAC — Season:1 — Pictured: (l-r) Charrisse Jackson Jordan, Robyn Dixon, Karen Huger, Gizelle Bryant, Katie Rost, Ashley Darby —(Photo by Tommy Garcia/Bravo) Reality shows are my guilty obsessions, especially the Real Housewives franchise on Bravo. I don’t know what fairy dust Andy Cohen sprinkled on those shows, but I’m hooked…
An Open Letter to Rep. John Lewis.
Originally posted on The South Lawn:
Representative Lewis, Yesterday, you stated the following about Bernie Sanders’s record on fighting for civil rights in the 1960s: “I never saw him. I never met him. I was chair of the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee for three years, from 1963 to 1966. I was involved with the sit-ins,…
Beyoncé’s “Formation” is Visually Powerful…But the Lyrics Don’t Match It
Originally posted on Kel & Mel Reviews:
https://youtu.be/LrCHz1gwzTo I wanted you to watch the video first before I said my peace. There really isn’t a lot to say about the visuals themselves. Katrina, Black Lives Matter, “stop shooting us”, the police with their hands up after witnessing a dance by a young black man, Beyoncé…
The Gospel According to Beyoncé
If Beyoncé encouraged us to pick up our crosses and carry it daily, love our neighbors, and preach “blessed are the poor,” folks everywhere would act like its the first time they’ve ever heard it. Why? Because Beyoncé said it. Beyoncé put her stamp of approval on it. Its okay to believe it. All you folks…
The Day I Was No Longer Afraid of My Voice
I’ve always been a writer. I think its because books inspire me more than films. Books have always taken my imagination places and inspired my imagination in ways that films never could. As a kid I wrote kid’s adventure stories inspired by my favorite book series The Magic Tree House. As a teenager becoming more…
Jesus and Racism
There are two things about racism that should be clear in 2015—what it is and what it is not. Critical race theorist Alan Freeman defines racism as an intentional, albeit irrational, deviation by a conscious wrongdoer from otherwise neutral, rational, and just ways of distributing jobs, power, prestige and wealth. This unjust distribution of power…
Covenant, Virtue, and the Syrian Refugee
With the remnants of American crime still institutionally and ideologically woven into the consciousness of America, the conception of virtue and covenant are needed as America currently faces a new trial that tests our commitment to these ideals—the Syrian refugee crisis. This crisis has revealed deeply-rooted Islamophobia and xenophobia in everyday American citizens, elected officials, and presidential candidates. But in order to move forward and deal with the crisis appropriately, America must have a Sankofa moment that reminds itself where it has been and how dangerous it is to repeat history.
Bellus Mantis 