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Fear of U.S. Marriage Equality Exported to Africa

By Kapya Kaoma

…f LGBTQI people while there, because to acknowledge them would be akin to “promoting homosexuality.” Kenyan Republican Liberty party leader Vincent Kidala claimed that 5,000 naked men and women will demonstrate against President Obama, and Evangelical Bishop Mark Kariuki warned against Obama using his visit as an opportunity to “talk about the gay issue.” MP Charles Njagagua even threatened to force the American president out of Kenya should he sp…

#TakeAKnee: Race and Religious Violence at the Heart of Trump Attacks on Kaepernick/NFL

By Benjamin E. Zeller

…gion. Religiously supported violence against Native Americans and enslaved Africans literally built the country, just as religiously sanctioned violence against wartime enemies including fascists and communists sustained it. Capital punishment, a massive prison industry and a militarized police force maintain the social order. For good and for evil, violence is central to our society. We extol it as patriotic, and it is supported by religious inst…

How AIDS Changed the Way American Christians Talk About Sex

By Anthony Petro

…eyliger’s What Would Jesus Do?, a more recent play about how members of an African American church in Harlem deal with HIV/AIDS in their congregation. I was excited about the possibility of looking at cultural production in my epilogue, including how theatre in particular has served as a political and even religious site for so many gay men affected by the AIDS crisis. I left this discussion out because, again, it took away from the cohesion of th…

Preaching to the ‘Moveable Middle’: Bishop Gene Robinson on Marriage Equality and the Election

By Candace Chellew-Hodge

…50 percent right after his announcement. I think that’s a sign that in the African-American community, particularly the religious community, they were doing their homework and they, too, were evolving on this issue. I think the president’s coming out about marriage equality gave them cover to go public. It’s not all of a sudden they changed, but it gave them the cover to say, “Me, too, actually.” What’s your opinion of the Republican presidential…

Election Day: Hope, Heartbreak, Naiveté, and Studs Terkel

By The Editors

…use open diplomacy to the repeated mockery of community organizers at the Republican Convention, the Republican Party has framed itself as the enemy of making the world a better place. It’s an idea with roots in the evangelical idea of original sin, encapsulated most bluntly by Sarah Palin’s favorite Baldwin brother, Stephen: “If you got all six billion people on the planet together and went to work on all that plagues this earth, all of us colle…

Tyler Perry’s Museum of Blackness

By Sevonna Brown

…his new efforts to address a global concern: the financial crisis. But the centralizing of the white family—which is a departure from Perry’s traditional filmic presentation—not only distanced Perry from his usual target audience of African Americans, it placed large servings of parody, caricature, and stereotype on a platter for white audiences to devour. I was really, really uncomfortable watching this film. The question then becomes: what is so…

Guns, God and Government — The Coming of White Minority Rule?

By A. E. Brooks-Key

…ership has been on a dramatic climb amongst non-whites, most notably among African Americans, as white vigilante violence is on the rise and, even scarier, is seemingly encouraged. As victims of failed gun control policies, African Americans who are overly concentrated in urban areas with the most stringent gun laws, along with inequitable enforcement of conceal carry laws, place Black folks in a most vulnerable position as white vigilante violenc…

Choose Right, Not Racism, Gov. Romney

By Anthea Butler

…u to exercise some discretion, noting your own past, and realize that many African Americans are sick and damn tired of white people questioning the President of the United States about his birth certificate? I hope you realize that because President Obama won in 2008, he had made it easier for you to run for president in 2012. Both the Republican Party and the religious right shunned you in 2008. Many Christian power brokers are holding their nos…

God Need Not Be Real, But the Black Hole Photo Is

By Ed Simon

…to chart an expedition in two locations—one in Brazil, another on the West African island of Principe, off the coast of Guinea—in the path of a complete solar eclipse that was to occur on May 29th, 1919. There, on the warm waters of the south Atlantic, Einstein’s theory was to face its Experimentum crucis, its possibly fatal test. Two decades later, Eddington would write in his book The Philosophy of Physical Science that “For the truth of the con…

Think Yoga and Mindfulness in Public Schools Are a No-Brainer? Think Again

By Candy Gunther Brown

…d by wealthy European Americans, and often target low-income, “inner-city” African Americans and Latinxs. “Secularized” programs extract, and potentially distort, cultural resources in a manner that can be critiqued as cultural theft. Marketers take what they see as the “essence” of another culture’s traditions, leaving behind what they dismiss as mere “baggage.” Ironically, positive orientalist stereotypes that equate Asian ancestry with spiritua…