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Zora Neale Hurston in Five Quotes

She was the queen of “tongue and lung” with the “gift of gab” — The Old Testament book of 2 Kings tells a story of when some marauders came to attack a team of gravediggers, the diggers hurriedly tossed the body of a dead man into the same grave with the prophet Elijah’s bones. …

Race

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Zora Neale Hurston in Five Quotes
Zora Neale Hurston in Five Quotes
Race

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A New Psalm for America’s Racial Uprising

Building a theology of lament in a breathless & racialized land — God calls us to lament, then love. My dear friend recently shared a story with me. A woman she knows was bringing water to peaceful protestors demonstrating outside St. John’s Church after George Floyd’s death. Officers tear-gassed the crowd to clear these bodies so Donald Trump could get the now…

Christianity

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A New Advent Psalm for America’s Racial Uprising
A New Advent Psalm for America’s Racial Uprising
Christianity

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Charlottesville’s Black Lives Matter Co-Founder Speaks Out

Don Gathers as Activist & Witness — Don Gathers was on the streets of Charlottesville on August 12, 2017: That Saturday when we got called to race down to Water Street. It was like a bomb had exploded in the intersection. There were bodies literally everywhere. Just blood and broken bones just all over the place. I…

BlackLivesMatter

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Charlottesville’s Black Lives Matter Co-Founder Speaks Out
Charlottesville’s Black Lives Matter Co-Founder Speaks Out
BlackLivesMatter

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Listening to America’s Racial Uprising

Violence is not the ultimate answer but neither is a dismissal of pain — There is a parallel between parenting and protest. I do not mean that the parents of the world don weapons, shields, and signs and head out to maintain familial peace, leading to cries for “law and order.” We are not at war against our children. I mean that our goal…

Parenting

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Listening to America’s Racial Uprising
Listening to America’s Racial Uprising
Parenting

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History in the Making: Dr. Wes Bellamy Goes National Yet Stays Rooted

Charlottesville’s former Vice Mayor and current co-chair of Our Black Party talks monuments, politics, & family — It was July 8, 2016 when Dr. Wes Bellamy got married, just four months after Zyahna Bryant sent her letter to The Daily Progress and published her petition to remove the Robert E. Lee statue and rename Lee Park. This was Bellamy’s first year on the Charlottesville City Council, the…

BlackLivesMatter

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History in the Making: Dr. Wes Bellamy Goes National Yet Stays Rooted
History in the Making: Dr. Wes Bellamy Goes National Yet Stays Rooted
BlackLivesMatter

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Jan 19, 2021

Our Black Party Reimagines American Politics

Redefining the Power of the Black Vote — “History is not the past. It is the present. We carry our history with us. We are our history.” -James Baldwin A new political party is making history, and they know they are doing it. “We have to be very clear,” says Dr. Wes Bellamy. “Before you were a Democrat…

Equality

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Our Black Party Reimagines American Politics
Our Black Party Reimagines American Politics
Equality

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Published in Curious

·Dec 17, 2020

What We Talk about When We Talk about Abortion

Black Lives Matter Shows the Heart of the Pro-Choice and Pro-Life Debate — For years my wife tried to buy me books. Sometimes she cheated a bit and looked at my Amazon Wish List or flat out asked me what I wanted. But on the occasions when she tried to find a book I might like for Christmas or my birthday without knowing…

Abortion

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What We Talk about When We Talk about Abortion
What We Talk about When We Talk about Abortion
Abortion

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Published in Momentum

·Nov 2, 2020

Charlottesville Anti-Racism Activist Zyahna Bryant Reimagines Race and Space

A conversation with one of the nation’s foremost young activists — My favorite image of Zyahna Bryant is one of her standing before Charlottesville, Virginia’s statue of Robert E. Lee. The 19-year-old activist seems to face it down as well as anyone who might oppose her demands to have it removed. It began in 2016, when Bryant, then a freshman at…

BlackLivesMatter

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Charlottesville Anti-Racism Activist Zyahna Bryant Reimagines Race and Space
Charlottesville Anti-Racism Activist Zyahna Bryant Reimagines Race and Space
BlackLivesMatter

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Published in An Injustice!

·Oct 22, 2020

Trump, the Prince of Folly, Brings out the Beast in Us

The President Is Neither Machiavelli’s Prince Nor Erasmus’ — Margaret Atwood’s novel The Handmaid’s Tale has a category for some of its post-apocalyptic survivors, people living under a government that suspended and then abolished the Constitution, people oppressed by a regime that organizes its society around a human’s ability to reproduce. She calls them “true believers,” and they are…

History

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Trump, the Prince of Folly, Brings out the Beast in Us
Trump, the Prince of Folly, Brings out the Beast in Us
History

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Published in Curious

·Oct 19, 2020

A Conversation with the Author Who Coined 2020’s Term of the Year

Why Conservatives Should Embrace the Black Lives Matter Movement Three years ago on August 12 my friend was on the streets of Charlottesville, Virginia. The Alt Right, neo-Nazis, and other white supremacists as well as antifa, Black Lives Matter folk, and other antiracists gathered, clashed, and protested against each other’s…

Politics

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A Conversation with the Author Who Coined 2020’s Term of the Year
A Conversation with the Author Who Coined 2020’s Term of the Year
Politics

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