by Chris Smith | Mar 25, 2022 | Opinion
The United States Senate began the historic Supreme Court confirmation hearing for the honorable Ketanji Brown Jackson on March 21. She is the first African American Woman to be nominated for the Supreme Court in U.S. history. If confirmed, Judge Brown Jackson will...
by Mark Woods | Mar 25, 2022 | Opinion
Editor’s note: “Look Back” is a series designed to highlight articles from the Good Faith Media archives that remain relevant or historically interesting. This article is being reposted to call attention to the United Nations International Day of Remembrance of the...
by Fiona Vernal | Mar 24, 2022 | Opinion
The 15th anniversary of the International Day of Remembrance of the Victims of Slavery and the Transatlantic Slave Trade is an auspicious time to reconsider the etymology of the word “commemorate.” Coined in the 1590s, as sugar was poised to revolutionize Atlantic...
by Jim Hill | Mar 23, 2022 | Opinion
I grew up in a Southern Baptist pastor’s home within a denomination that has a long and tragic history of racism. The convention was founded primarily over the issue of slavery. Not only did white Baptists in the South support slavery, but they have a profound legacy...
by Wendell Griffen | Mar 22, 2022 | Opinion
The formerly enslaved population of the U.S. was given no land, no property, no money. They received no restitution for deprivations they had been forced to endure under the “rule of law” – neither have their more than 30 million descendants. The nation that...
