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Bad News for LGBT Anglicans, Mormons, Adventists, Norwegians, Russians, Georgians, Egyptians, Kuwaitis, Saudis…

By Peter Montgomery

…Judge Publishes Memoir In response to a parliamentary question this week, South African President Jacob Zuma refused to condemn Uganda’s anti-gay law, writing, “South Africa respects the sovereign rights of other countries to adopt their own legislation. Also this week, Edwin Cameron, an openly gay judge who joined South Africa’s Constitutional Court in 2009, launched a book that traces his personal journey as well as the country’s journey toward…

Why South Korea (and the US) Use Amusement Parks to Push Creationism

By Andrew Aghapour

…publicans are creationists. See Gallup’s report for handy visuals of these numbers. These reports raise some interesting questions. Why is South Korean creationism trafficking in amusement parks and public campaigns, instead of science buildings and churches? How can U.S. views remain virtually unchanged since the 1980s, despite significant political and cultural changes in the last two decades? Where should we place the 32% of respondents who agr…

Catholic Church Bans Gay Film: This Week’s Global LGBT Recap

By Peter Montgomery

…tation, Gender Identity and Expression,” a three-day seminar hosted by the South African government and the South African Human Rights Commission. Mushwana further noted that, despite “unacceptably high levels of violence that are perpetrated solely due to another person’s sexual orientation or gender identity… we are acutely aware that discussions on these matters are either difficult or not tolerated by many leaders, be they politicians, religio…

What Fidel Castro’s Death Means for LGBT Rights in Cuba and More, in This Week’s Global LGBT Recap

By Peter Montgomery

…d. Although Magufuli has not said anything publicly about homosexuality, a number of his appointees have made harsh remarks. Critics of gay rights say this nation — which has large numbers of Muslims and Christians — must protect traditional values. In an August speech, Paul Makonda, the regional commissioner of Dar es Salaam, the capital, threatened to arrest people who were linked to gay men on social-networking sites. “If there’s a homosexual w…

What Did Kyrie Say That Was So Wrong? When Black Antisemitism Meets White Jewish Privilege

By A. E. Brooks-Key

…m, Black chosenness has been the vocabulary for African Americans and Anglophone African populations of the Caribbean to express being viewed as full humans. But Andre, you ask, what about the Jews are the seed of Satan and Jewish world domination rhetoric? Isn’t that evidence of Black antisemitism? Rabbi Tamar Manasseh argues that Kyrie Irving and Kanye West (yes, Kanye! His momma called him Kanye, I’m calling him Kanye) have tragically become th…

Gambian Leaders Portray Anti-Gay Law as Defense of Islam, Ugandan Politicians as ‘Christmas Gift’; Global LGBT Recap

By Peter Montgomery

…nts currently living in Europe. “They facilitate the continuous looting of African resources by the same forces that enslaved Africans; who still believe that we blacks are monkeys and not human and, therefore, should not benefit from our Allah-given vast natural resources that we have on the African continent.” “This being the case, the Republic of The Gambia will never be a party to the so-called EPA with the European Union as it is designed to…

Year-End Best Books in Race and Religion in American History

By Paul Harvey

…gion in America, focusing here particularly on books focusing on people of African descent. African-American Religions, 1500-2000: Colonialism, Democracy, and Freedom Sylvester A. Johnson Cambridge University Press October 2015 The first one is not for the faint of heart, and not for anyone who wants the comforting story of “from slavery to freedom” reaffirmed. Sylvester Johnson’s African American Religions, 1500-2000: Colonialism, Democracy, and…

What is Juneteenth to America? It Has to Be More Than ‘Black 4th of July’ if It’s to Be Truly Meaningful

By A. E. Brooks-Key

…crusade. Equally important, Juneteenth should not be viewed as a time for African Americans to educate other Americans about the struggles of Black life. African Americans should be allowed to be “off the clock” and observe Juneteenth with the same joviality that we see with other American civil holidays. Finally, the recognition and elevation of Juneteenth to national holiday status represents an opportunity to make Black life matter in an area…

100 Years Later, Just Weeks After OK Bans Critical Race Theory, the Tulsa Race Massacre is Still Marginal History

By A. E. Brooks-Key

…to the 1619 Project and the current demonization of critical race theory, African-American history presents a challenging conundrum. The desire to fold the trauma and tragedy of African-American history into a triumphalist narrative of freedom and justice for all, regardless of historical fact. Social and political conservatives have an easy time locating the “villain” when it can be perceived as foreign. This nation is at ease with memorializing…

A History of Prophetic Black Preaching That Doesn’t Start or End With Dr. King

By Kenyatta R. Gilbert

…ooks and underplays. She does not adequately attend to the vital roles the African-American preacher and African-American preaching played in shaping the course of the largely leaderless movement of more than 1.5 million southern Black migrants who exited the South between 1916 and 1940, staking it all in search of America’s Promised Land in the industrial North. What’s your next book? I have a book titled Exodus Preaching: Shaping Sermons for the…