by Zach Dawes Jr | Aug 27, 2021 | News
A slim majority (53%) of U.S. adults say it is good to have increased attention on the nation’s history of slavery and racism, according to an Aug. 12 Pew Research Center report. Of this majority, 30% described this as “very good” and 23% as “somewhat good.” By...
by Cally Chisholm | Jun 18, 2021 | News
In the aftermath of the Tulsa Race Massacre, a devastating wave of racial violence that decimated Black Wall Street in 1921, many Black Americans were not given the means to rebuild their businesses and restore the Greenwood district back to its former glory. The...
by Aidsand F. Wright-Riggins | Jan 13, 2020 | Opinion
On Martin Luther King Jr. Day 2020, I would love to hear parents in their homes and speakers in auditoriums focus on King’s April 16, 1963, “Letter from a Birmingham Jail.” There are gems galore in that letter. Reading it, I am most drawn to the inseparability of... by Bob Allen | Feb 4, 2008 | News
The church’s struggle against racism is no longer primarily about skin color, but institutions that bestow privilege on some and penalties on others, an activist, denominational leader and scholar said in a special-interest session Friday at the New Baptist... by Aidsand F. Wright-Riggins | Oct 30, 2007 | Opinion
In the late 1970s, I was a not-yet-30-year-old pastor with four or five years of grassroots ordained experience under my belt. I was serving a congregation of fewer than 50 members in south-central Los Angeles, in a converted restaurant located in a community whose...