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The Rev. Amos Brown, vice chair of California’s reparations task force, calls for action
By Adelle M. Banks — June 29, 2023
(RNS) — ‘We’ve got to act and stop just talking, not just saying we are sad,’ Brown said.
William Barber departs pulpit of Greenleaf Church with an ode to the power of disability
By Yonat Shimron — June 19, 2023
(RNS) — The sermon, which capped his 30-year tenure as pastor of the Disciples of Christ church in Goldsboro, North Carolina, was unusually personal.
Charged with 2 felonies for protesting, the Rev. Greg Drumwright is marching on
By Yonat Shimron — December 1, 2020
GRAHAM, N.C. (RNS) — Drumwright’s activism may have found his greatest impact close to home, in North Carolina’s Alamance County — a bastion of racialized policing.
March on Washington events to focus on racial justice, police brutality, voting
By Adelle M. Banks — August 25, 2020
(RNS) — The 1963 event about economic empowerment and civic engagement is being echoed amid a new political climate.
Red Summer, Trump Summer and the politics of hate
By Cheryl Townsend Gilkes — August 16, 2019
(RNS) — Calling Trump 'un-American' exhibits an ignorance of the violent forces — conquest, enslavement, annexation and immigration — that made America.
Latter-day Saints, NAACP collaborating on inner-city initiative
By Adelle M. Banks — October 15, 2018
(RNS) — Leaders of the two groups met in Salt Lake City earlier this month to continue hashing out plans for an 'education and employment initiative' to be started in cities from Baltimore to San Francisco.
Black clergy: NAACP on a ‘path toward irrelevancy’
By Adelle M. Banks — July 14, 2017
(RNS) — The bishops cited their concerns about the future of the NAACP while acknowledging both historically black organizations are 'old' and need to revamp.
In ‘turbulent times,’ 500 rabbis look for ways to resist and cope
By Lauren Markoe — March 20, 2017
(RNS) In his first few weeks in office, President Trump administration has given progressive-minded rabbis much to resist and counter, and it's exhausting, said one rabbi attending the Central Council of American Rabbis meeting in Atlanta.
Gay civil rights activist, MLK mentor Bayard Rustin to be honored
By Renée K. Gadoua — June 30, 2015
(RNS) Years before the gay rights movement gained momentum, the openly gay black activist, a Quaker, advised Martin Luther King Jr. on nonviolent protest tactics and organized the 1963 March on Washington.
‘Moral Monday’ expands to a week of social justice action across U.S.
By Cathy Lynn Grossman — August 19, 2014
(RNS) One day a week in one state isn't enough for clergy and activists' ambitious progressive agenda.
NC pastor to kick off second year of demonstrations
By Amanda Greene — February 4, 2014
(RNS) The Rev. William J. Barber II and his Moral Mondays team are making final preparations for the kickoff event for the second year of protests.
Beyond #WhiteHouseIftar: 6 points towards a principled action of solidarity
By Omid Safi — July 26, 2013
Here are six concrete points and strategies to help us continue a principled and constructive conversation about #whitehouseiftars. In the last thirty years, we as Muslims have had intense conversations about our multiple and overlapping identities as Americans and as Muslims. What kind of America we want to belong to? An America that is an Empire, or a land of liberty and rights? If it is the latter, words will not suffice. We need to be participants in making that a reality.
NAACP’s William Barber emerges as leader of Moral Monday protests
By Yonat Shimron — June 24, 2013
(RNS) At a time when the country is becoming less religious and liberal politicians shy away from faith-based rhetoric, this Disciples of Christ minister, steeped in the African-American church tradition, has emerged as a galvanizing force in North Carolina’s pushback against the Republican-dominated legislature.
At Christmas, the babe in the manger isn’t always white
By Adelle M. Banks — December 14, 2012
(RNS) At this time of year, many Christians dispel the notion of a white baby Jesus by including a Christ child of other colors in Nativity scenes and plays. By Adelle M. Banks.
Black churches split over gay marriage and Obama
By Adelle M. Banks — August 7, 2012
(RNS) President Obama's support for gay marriage has put some black clergy in a bind, torn between their political loyalties and their religious beliefs. By Adelle M. Banks.
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