by Wendell Griffen | May 27, 2022 | Opinion
At the end of each message sent from my personal email account is a quote from South African liberation theologian Allan Boesak that I have appropriated for the title of this column. Boesak’s statement, “The Time for Pious Words is Over,” is part of the title of...
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...
by Wendell Griffen | Mar 21, 2022 | Opinion
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...
by Wendell Griffen | Feb 8, 2022 | Opinion
Bomb threats were made against at least eight historically Black colleges and universities (HBCUs) across the United States on Jan. 4, 2022. The University of Arkansas at Pine Bluff (formerly Arkansas AM & N College) was one of the institutions targeted. On Feb....
by Wendell Griffen | Dec 30, 2021 | Opinion
Archbishop Desmond Tutu passed from life in God’s love among us to life in God’s love beyond us on Boxing Day 2021 in his beloved South Africa at the full age of 90. As befitting a Nobel laureate, Desmond Tutu is remembered throughout the world as a courageous,...
