Why We Need to Remember

Why We Need to Remember

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...
The Debt America Refuses to Pay: Part 2

The Debt America Refuses to Pay: Part 2

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...
The Debt America Refuses to Pay: Part 1

The Debt America Refuses to Pay: Part 1

I am one of the more than 30 million descendants of American slavery. Our enslaved ancestors were shipped, sold, robbed, maimed, raped, murdered and otherwise wronged from 1619, when a Dutch ship named the White Lion arrived at Jamestown, Virginia, until slavery was...