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“If it’s not good enough for my child, then why are we putting any children in those schools?”
If you not already heard it, this Fresh Air interview with New York Times reporter Nikole Hannah-Jones about public school segregation is essential listening. A taste: The original mission of public schools … is this understanding that no matter where you come from, you will go into the doors of a school and every child will receive…
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“We are not Chi-raq…”
Chicago is arguably the capital of black America. The legacy of African Americans reverberates from the Johnson Publishing Company, with its flagship publication Ebony, to multiple black hair-care companies to the first black US congressman elected in the north. All of this before Oprah Winfrey set roots here. It’s not by accident, then, that the…
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5 Favorite Books of 2016
I took a few seminary classes this year which explains some of what’s on my 2016 reading list. None of those made my top-5 list, but a few could have: Kelly Brown Douglas’ The Black Christ and Sexuality and the Church were great introductions to womanist theology, Frederick Douglass’ Narrative proved immensely relevant during the election, and The Reason Why…
David W. Swanson 