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When Religion Kills: The Narco-Traffickers of the Borderlands

By Luis Leon

…e, fidelity, equality, and Justice.” Precept fifteen declares that the KTM promote democratic freedoms: expression, conscience, and religion. Precept sixteen states that Knights need to understand “how others get close to God.” Credo sixteen extols the virtue of patriotism. Number nineteen advises humility and nobility, while twenty-two announces that no woman should fear a Knight, but, rather, should feel protected by him. Twenty-nine reiterates…

The People’s Temple, the Black Church, and the Tragic Legacy of Jonestown

By Anita Little

…ing his opposition to biblical dogma and rhetoric around the inhumanity of African-Americans and African bodies. He was up front in saying that the Bible is problematic when it comes to enfranchising and humanizing Africans. He was aware of the terrorist past of race relations in the United States, that Judeo-Christian reign within the United States has always undermined black agency and self-determination. So that was the key difference. He was a…

Hey Hey, Ho Ho White Jesus Has to Go… But The Issue is More Complicated Than You Think

By A. E. Brooks-Key

…is on “EGYPT” not Denmark (Europe). King is relying on a cultural trope in African-American religious history called Ethiopianism found throughout African-American Christianity, Black Judaism, Black Islam and Anglo-Caribbean religious traditions such as Rastafarianism, with the reference to the Biblical passage: “Princes shall come of Egypt; Ethiopia shall soon stretch out her hands unto God” (Psalms, 68:31). This verse was seen by some as a proph…

How the Catholic Church Changed the Movies

By Patricia Miller

…llywood Censored. The code they designed became the Motion Picture Conduct Code, popularly know as the Hays Code after it was adopted by William Hays, a Presbyterian elder who was hired by the major studios to help clean up the industry’s image after it was rocked by a series of scandals. The code, says Black, “was a fascinating combination of Catholic theology, conservative politics and pop psychology—an amalgam that would control the content of…

Religion and Resistance at the New National Museum of African American History and Culture

By Anita Little

…nity of enslaved people who could have never imagined in their lifetime an African American president or an African American museum in our nation’s capital. It’s no small thing, we are at the evening of President Obama’s presidency. A lot of the people coming on opening day are coming partially to say goodbye to President Obama in what will be one of his last public acts as president. For me personally, it makes me think of the spirits of the ance…

Before We Scold DeSean Jackson and Others For Anti-Semitism We Need To Talk About ‘Chosenness’

By A. E. Brooks-Key

…fferent. Baldwin would challenge his contemporaries such as the editors of African-American publications Freedomways and Liberator Magazine for inflammatory articles that trafficked in anti-Semitic rhetoric. But what we see in Baldwin’s analysis is both a recognition of Jewish whiteness and a need to approach Black protest to this racial hierarchy with a nuanced view that refuses to hide behind easy answers. Rather than hating Jews for being Jews—…

‘Don’t Call Me Black No More, I’m an Israelite’: Kendrick Lamar, Black Hebrew Religion, and Black Suffering

By A. E. Brooks-Key

…SUPK-type Hebrew Israelite doctrine: the “forgotten” Israelite ancestry of African Americans and, more importantly, that African Americans are subjects of a divine curse. The song “FEAR” opens with a recorded voicemail message from his cousin, informing Kendrick: I don’t think I could find a way to make it on this earth. What’s up, family? Yeah, it’s ya cousin Carl, man, just givin’ you a call, man. I know you been havin’ a lot on ya mind lately,…

American Indians Irate over Bin Laden Code Name “Geronimo”

By Johnny P. Flynn

…og that he felt that Custer or Columbus would have been a more appropriate code name for bin Laden, and that the use of Geronimo was just another example of how “We’ve been reduced to caricatures as mascots and entertainment in sports and media.” In fact, the Senate Indian Affairs Committee held hearings recently on American Indians and racist stereotypes, and one of the first items of business was a discussion of why this particular code name wa…

Anti-Gay Forces On Offense in Europe; ‘African Islam’ Challenged by Extremists; Irish Marriage Foes & ‘Sounds of Sodomy’; Global LGBT Recap

By Peter Montgomery

…d a Dominican man were married inside the British embassy in the Dominican Republic, but the marriage will not be recognized by the Dominican government. Religious conservatives in the Dominican Republic are reportedly “furious.” Pink News reported that the chair of the Dominical Council of Evangelical Churches said it “brings a curse to the nation.” Nepal: Third Gender Option Added to Passports In what Reuters calls “a sign of the conservative Hi…

A Moral Galaxy: War and Suffering in “Star Wars: The Old Republic”

By Robert M. Geraci and Nat Recine

…of choice for children fighting evil and defending the true and righteous republic. Some of those kids grow up and (at least half-) seriously adopt their heroic identities, calling themselves Jedis. But before the newest trilogy of films could offer a hero’s quest and a chance of redemption to a new generation, the Star Wars franchise hit a snag in its moral status. Recently, the videogame Star Wars: The Old Republic (SWTOR) prompted a debate ove…