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Dear Hollywood, It’s Time to Start Making Films about Real Black Catholic Nuns

By Shannen Dee Williams

…k nun, who fought to revolutionize Catholic masses by incorporating sacred African-American cultural and spiritual traditions. In 1970s and 1980s, pioneer African-American Franciscan Sister of Perpetual Adoration Thea Bowman took the U.S. Catholic church by storm with her public opposition to Catholic divestment from inner-city communities and her revolutionary ministry, which masterfully combined African-American storytelling, preaching, dancing,…

W. E. B. Du Bois, American Prophet

By Edward J. Blum

…uch more dissatisfied with the title of my first book, Reforging the White Republic: Race, Religion, and American Nationalism, 1865-1898. I had wanted to name it When God Wept: Race, Religion, and the Reforging of the White Republic, 1865-1898. The theme of a God who cried over racial discrimination, violence, and injustice ran throughout the book, and Du Bois concluded his magisterial Black Reconstruction with the vision of God weeping over the e…

The Brutality of Life for Syrian LGBTs; Saving the Anglican Church by Dissolving It; Backlash to Hindu Gay Wedding Ceremony in Indonesia; Global LGBT Recap

By Peter Montgomery

…ed to organize an anti-Western bloc, it has encouraged other former Soviet republics to adopt similar legislation. In Central and Eastern Europe, right-wing political parties have found electoral success, stoking nationalist fervor and accompanying the escalation of violent hate crimes against LGBT people, migrants and refugees, Muslims, and Roma in Poland, Bulgaria, and elsewhere. In Sub-Saharan Africa, long-serving strongmen cynically deploy hom…

‘Open Mosque’ in South Africa Receives Threats; ‘Blood Test’ for ‘Degeneratism’: Global LGBT Recap

By Peter Montgomery

…a, Uganda, Zambia and Zimbabwe. The “call to reflection and action for the African continent” was named “The KwaZulu Natal Declaration.” Full text is available at Momba Online; excerpts below. Aware of the traditional leadership roles that academics, religious institutions, and churches in Africa have played in promoting social justice and human dignity, Troubled by the misuse of religion to further marginalize and exclude sexual minorities from s…

Hitching a Freedom Ride: Gay Ain’t the New Black…

By Jonathan L. Walton

…than fostering an alliance based on a shared conception of exclusion, many African Americans are agitated by the analogy. For many African Americans, the term ‘civil rights’ has a distinctive connotation. And folks rightly argue that same-sex marriage was neither the aim nor a necessary conclusion of the civil rights movement. In short, “Gay ain’t the new black.” Personally, I tend to agree with this latter point, but for different reasons. For me…

What Passover Taught Me About Being Black

By A. E. Brooks-Key

…xpected happened, I converted to rabbinic Judaism under the guidance of an African-American rabbi and within the context of a primarily African-American congregation. Observing the Passover seder communally with my congregation was exciting. As time progressed, however, Passover became further removed from my annual celebration of freedom from Egyptian slavery and the hope for the end of American bondage to debates over whether, as a non-Ashkenazi…

New Study Shows Prop. 8 Success “Not Personal”

By Candace Chellew-Hodge

…d Prop 8 “an outlier” that was not supported by other, subsequent polls of African-American voters. Instead, the Task Force report showed African American support for the measure was strong, ranging from 57 to 59 percent, but not as overwhelming as the exit poll numbers. Andrea Shorter, director of Marriage for All, said even though a majority of African-Americans voted in favor of Prop 8, the lower numbers could help remove “the wedge between the…

Can a Morehouse College Man be Openly Gay?

By Rev. Irene Monroe

…arts college for men, Morehouse continues to confer degrees on more men of African descent than any institution of higher education in this country. Although Morehouse has always had a vibrant underground gay community, Morehouse has carefully crafted its image as an institution that produces strong men of African descent. And part of its crafted image is the legacy of the strong Morehouse man who is unquestionably heterosexual. If Morehouse is to…

Anti-LGBT Culture Warriors On The March; More in Global LGBT Recap

By Peter Montgomery

…rence will take place in Malawi November 28-30. The conference theme, “The African Family & Cultural Colonization,” promotes the Religious Right narrative that advocacy for LGBT human rights in Africa is a form of ideological colonialism. Malawi’s Vice President Saulo Chilima is listed as a speaker, along with Roman Catholic Bishop Luke Msusa. Other speakers include: anti-gay activist Brian Brown of the National Organization for Marriage and the I…

White Rockers in Search of Soul Salvation

By Paul Harvey

…After his death, Bryan’s nephew, Andrew Marshall, took the pulpit at First African Baptist, and became one of the best known (and most controversial) black ministers of the antebellum era, leading to a major schism of the church body. In the early twentieth century, First African was rather famous for its fights and dissension, but eventually became known as well for the effective pastorate of the Reverend Ralph Marks Gilbert, who revived the stat…