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How Can You Exclude The NAACP and Liberal Protestants from Human Rights History?

By Austin Dacey

…s Carol Anderson details in Eyes Off the Prize: The United Nations and the African American Struggle for Human Rights, 1944-1955, DuBois was joined by the educator and black feminist activist Mary McLeod Bethune and the NAACP’s executive director and chief investigator of lynchings, Walter White, in pressing for an enforceable international bill of human rights and independence for all colonized peoples. Their ultimate goal was to bring the United…

LGBT Human Rights in UN Sustainable Development Negotiation; Swiss Bishop Says Speaking of ‘Family Diversity’ is ‘Attack on the Creator’; Canadian Food Bank’s Anti-Gay Dogma; Global LGBT Recap

By Peter Montgomery

…all human rights. It will work to ensure that human rights and fundamental freedoms are enjoyed by all without discrimination on grounds of race, ethnicity, color, sex, age, language, religion, culture, migration status, political or other opinion, national or social origin, economic situation, birth, disability or other status.” In the end, she says, “the compromise the drafters found was to replace the text with a verbatim cut-and-paste of langu…

The Forgotten History of Black Calvinism and the Haunting of American Folk Music

By Joshua Guthman

…experiences. The second story unfolds in the late-nineteenth century when African-American Primitives reconstructed Calvinism’s withered frame to build an education movement grounded in what they described as their “hardshell” Calvinist identity: rugged yet flexible, durable yet capable of adaptation. This is a tale that has entirely escaped notice even though its burdens and aspirations tell us something new about African Americans, Calvinism’s…

Christianity’s Concussion Crisis: Where Football and Faith Collide

By Sean O'Neil

…istian, recently wrote Under Our Skin: Getting Real about Race—and Getting Free from the Fears and Frustrations that Divide Us, which was published on October 17, 2015. Exactly a month previous, the Erwin brothers, who have had rare box-office success with faith-themed films, released an evangelical football story about racial reconciliation in 1970s Alabama, called Woodlawn. The film was based on true events recounted in a book of the same name,…

Rev. William Barber: Jazzman for Justice

By Peter Heltzel

…prominent. There French colonizers had intermarried with Native Americans, African Americans and the Spanish, creating an unprecedented zone of intercultural interaction. The historical fact of racial and cultural mixing opens a window to understanding what jazz originally was: An essentially intercultural and, therefore, subversive phenomenon. Like jazz, fusion politics is an impressive blend of different political styles that is capable of confr…

Prisoners In the Hands of an Angry God: A Conversation About Religion and Reform

By Andrew Aghapour and Stephanie Gaskill

…stem. It’s not just that American prisons hold disproportionate numbers of African Americans. It’s that this racial composition created public support for, or at least indifference towards, “tough on crime” and “law and order” policies. Politicians have been able to pass harsh sentencing laws and build more prisons in part because deeply entrenched racial prejudices make the general public less likely to sympathize with the low-income African Amer…

Malawi Catholic Bishops Call For Enforcement of Sodomy Law; Ukrainian Thugs Disrupt Equality Festival Opposed by Orthodox Church; Indonesian Islamists Continue Rhetorical War on LGBTs; Global LGBT Recap

By Peter Montgomery

…, according to a Wikipedia entry, “mixed-race descendants of West African, Central African, Island Carib, and Arawak people,” many of whom practice a syncretic form of Catholicism that incorporates some traditional mystical practices. According to 7Newsbelize, Stirm has said that he has “raised two Garifuna boys as (his) own” and that he has worked with others who “needed demonic strongholds broken off their lives from withcraft & fear.” Mena’s re…

Thank You Breitbart, For The Islam

By Haroon Moghul

…lel approaches to the same problems. Allow me to explain. Many Muslims are African-American. A rising proportion are Mexican. Where do the boundaries between these groups lie? If “Muslim” is separate from African-American, does that mean Islam trumps (sic) blackness? What happens with Eastern European Muslims—who are, by any reasonable definition, white and (obviously) European? Are their “culture and politics” more like white, Christian, Italian-…

Tutu’s Daughter Marries Woman & Loses Anglican Priest License; Romanian Anti-Marriage Activists Get 3 Million Signatures; Australian State Apologizes For Harmful Sodomy Laws; Global LGBT Recap

By Peter Montgomery

…the Kyrgyz bill also proposed jail terms of up to one year for those who “promote homosexual relations” through the media or among children. The head of the committee on rule of law, order and fighting crime, Janybek Bakchiev, said that although the bill had already passed through two readings in the previous session of parliament, another second-tier examination was required. “Considering that this [new session of] parliament has not yet discuss…

Sexist, Homophobic Representatives of “The Black Church” Just Want to Make Black America Great Again

By Anita Little

…ry “hot sauce in my bag.” It starts out okay enough, pointing out how both Republican and Democratic parties have been apathetic to the plight of black Americans. Today in the United States more than ten million people of African descent face a crisis of catastrophic proportions. Life in our major post-industrial centers can be poor, nasty, brutish and short. When it comes to the black underclass America’s two major political parties appear to hav…