The Dharma of Racial Justice
Mindfulness can help us lean into our subjective, embodied experiences of race, racism, and white supremacy so we might begin to disrupt these harmful legacies. By Rhonda V. Magee.
Category: Race/Racial Issues
The Deliciousness of Truth
Black and Buddhist: In the face of white supremacy, Buddhism reteaches us how to relate to truth and to one another. By Pamela Ayo Yetunde
A Full-Bodied Dharma
Black and Buddhist: Contributors to this volume take refuge in embodied practice and in vibrant community. By Judith Simmer-Brown
Creating a World Beyond Lethal Force
Reducing our reliance on the military and police to keep us safe starts with having revolutionary conversations. By Sarah Nahar
Freedom Doesn’t Happen in a Day
Four voices celebrate the publication of Black and Buddhist: What Buddhism Can Teach Us about Race, Resilience, Transformation, and Freedom. Buddhism offers practical tools to work through intergenerational trauma. By Cheryl A. Giles
Investing in a World That Is Not Yet
Abolishing the police requires tapping into the Black radical imagination. By Marc Lamont Hill
Sacred, Ancestral Cries for Freedom
Black and Buddhist: The Eightfold Path finds resonance in the Black church. By Melissa Wood Bartholomew
Police Brutality and the #EndSARS Movement in Nigeria
A Nigerian protest movement offers hope for the future of transnational activism. By Oluwole Ojewale
Policing: War Institution or Public Service?
A Kenyan policy analyst traces the causes and consequences of the global militarization of police. By Douglas Lucas Kivoi
Let My People Go
Mass incarceration is Jim Crow’s most obvious descendent. Faith communities must focus on the collective work of dismantling this catastrophic system. By Raphael G. Warnock
Guadalupe Love
The Virgin of Guadalupe spreads her garment of compassion for all people in travail. By Davíd Carrasco.
Sex, Gender, and Sexuality
A selected reading list from Amy Hollywood’s course.
Fully Fleshed Out: Religion, Womanhood, and Blackness in Contemporary Media
Positive, complex representations of black women’s religious experience in Queen Sugar and Being Serena. By LeRhonda S. Manigault-Bryant
Wakanda and Black Queer Moral Imaginaries
Black Panther serves as a moral imaginary pointing to freedom, fugitivity, and black queer ethical action. By Thelathia Nikki Young
‘Whiteness’ in the Mormon Archive
Race and the Making of the Mormon People, by Max Perry Mueller, examines the ideology of “white universalism” in the formation of Mormonism. By Seth Perry
The Death of The Buddha’s Mother
The lore around Maya, who died soon after giving birth to the Buddha, illuminates the untold, uncounted stories of women who die in childbirth today. By Kim Gutschow
#BlackLivesMatter and Living the Bodhisattva Vow
Convert sanghas in the United States need to be mindful of the potential for reducing Buddhism to a bourgeois “spirituality” that avoids addressing racial wounds. By Christopher Raiche
Giving the Ghost a Voice
Buddhist practice has enabled this Filipino/Asian American to grapple with painful experiences around race that include feeling unseen and silenced. By Bryan Mendiola
Mistaking a Stick for a Snake
The Buddha’s teachings about distortions of perception anticipated current research on “inherent bias.” By Bonnie Duran
‘Woman Hold My Hand’
Tara (the female Buddha), Sweet Honey and the Rock, and womanist theologians offer fiercely loving examples of what it means to be free and to free others. By Rod Owens
