by Terrell Carter | Mar 19, 2021 | Opinion
What do you think of when you hear the phrase “American Dream”? It usually means that if a person works hard and keeps their nose clean, they will achieve anything they want. Much of the nation’s history, and the theology that has arisen from the church in America,...
by Miguel A. De La Torre | Mar 18, 2021 | Christian Nationalism, Opinion
The greatest threat to the message of Christ is white Christians (along with BIPOC Christians who embrace white theology). This adulteration of the gospel message fuses and confuses God with country. Long before Donald Trump ever rode down those golden escalators to...
by Chris Smith | Mar 17, 2021 | Opinion
Lee Daniel’s “The Butler” was the featured film on a recent family movie night. The main character, Cecil Gaines (played by Forest Whitaker), is the son of a sharecropper in the 1920s. Although technically “free,” the film depicts the tenuous situation Black people...
by Wendell Griffen | Mar 16, 2021 | Opinion
On March 21, 1960, South African police shot and killed 69 people at a peaceful rally to protest apartheid “pass” laws in Sharpeville, South Africa. In 1979, the United Nations first observed March 21 as the International Day for the Elimination of Racial...
by Starlette Thomas | Mar 15, 2021 | Opinion
What a day! The United Nations calls March 21 the International Day for the Elimination of Racial Discrimination. I wish there were more days like it, instead of days that celebrate colonizers, oppressors, murderers, traitors and such. I wish that these days would...
