Memory, History, and the Ethics of Reparations
Henry Ossawa Tanner’s global pursuit of reconciliation is a cautionary tale if we are going to take corporate and civic responsibility for the crime of enslavement. By Terrence L. Johnson
Henry Ossawa Tanner’s global pursuit of reconciliation is a cautionary tale if we are going to take corporate and civic responsibility for the crime of enslavement. By Terrence L. Johnson
Instead of a theodicy of progress, we need to enact a “hauntodicy of blackness” by staying with the dead and not moving on. By Biko Mandela Gray
Womanism founders Katie Cannon and Delores Williams created groundbreaking work that has led to a wide range of scholarship focused on the thriving of Black women. By Gary Dorrien
Austin Reed’s antebellum memoir The Life and the Adventures of a Haunted Convict subverts notions of incarceration as spiritually regenerative. By Klaus C. Yoder
A selected reading list from Terrence L. Johnson’s course “Racial Liberalism and the Ethics of Law and Justice.”
A Q&A with Wendy Sanford and Mary Norman about These Walls between Us: A Memoir of Friendship across Race and Class. By Eva Seligman
Schooling must be abolished so that education can begin, and abolitionist theology is a starting point. By Ashley Y. Lipscomb
A Q&A with Todne Thomas on her latest book, Kincraft: The Making of Black Evangelical Sociality. By Adam McNeil
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.
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
Black and Buddhist: Contributors to this volume take refuge in embodied practice and in vibrant community. By Judith Simmer-Brown
Reducing our reliance on the military and police to keep us safe starts with having revolutionary conversations. By Sarah Nahar
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
Abolishing the police requires tapping into the Black radical imagination. By Marc Lamont Hill
A Nigerian protest movement offers hope for the future of transnational activism. By Oluwole Ojewale
Black and Buddhist: The Eightfold Path finds resonance in the Black church. By Melissa Wood Bartholomew
A Kenyan policy analyst traces the causes and consequences of the global militarization of police. By Douglas Lucas Kivoi
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
The Virgin of Guadalupe spreads her garment of compassion for all people in travail. By Davíd Carrasco.
A selected reading list from Amy Hollywood’s course.