What We Don’t Know About Black Social Gospel: A Long-Neglected Tradition Is Reclaimed
For twenty years I have sprinkled discussions of the black social gospel into various books…
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How Can You Exclude The NAACP and Liberal Protestants from Human Rights History?
No, we can’t simply thank anti-communist, anti-Enlightenment Catholics for the elevation of human rights language.
Read MoreHow Not to Talk to the NAACP
Romney promises heart but delivers fighting words and a warmed-over stump speech.
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Mitt Romney Plays the Tin Man at the NAACP Convention
If you can’t at least stiffly sway to the Hammond B3 organ there is truly no hope for you.
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At their NAACP speeches Biden got it, Romney did not.
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Gay, Black, and Quaker: History Catches Up with Bayard Rustin
As NAACP President Ben Jealous told the Times last week, “it’s become clear that, just as Bayard Rustin admonished us all, that we would either stand together or die apart.”
“Who admonished us?” readers must have asked. Bayard Rustin’s role as advisor to Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. and as organizer of the 1963 March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom (where King delivered his “I Have a Dream” speech) should have assured his place in American social and political history. But Rustin has long been denied his proper place—largely because he was an openly gay man.
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Court Agrees: Fed Gov Must Recognize Same-Sex Marriages
Two of the three judges who upheld the ruling were GOP appointees.
Read MoreReligious Groups, Dioceses, Churches Fund Anti-Gay Initiative in North Carolina
Amendment would codify hatred into law
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Letter from faith leaders critical of his comments about Obama’s religion.
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The ‘Christianization’ of Shirley Sherrod
Blogger Andrew Breitbart’s recent attack on Shirley Sherrod reflects the legacy of “christianization” as a measure of black acceptability in white civil society. Sherrod (a former Student Non-Violent Coordinating…
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