Artist Daniel Minter’s work is consistently wonderful — it teaches, transforms and sacralizes. This article is about Minter’s most recent art projects, including one that involves a ritual meal and poetry in honor of a eugenicized co...
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I. Recently, Rev. Jeri Wright and her father, Rev. Dr. Jeremiah Wright, asked me to join them in leading an early morning prayer fellowship. They have been organizing this informal, online meeting since April, as a service of the Samuel Dewitt Proctor C...
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Since founding her modern dance institution, the Denver icon has used her art to honor the African American experience—and as an agent for change. Now, as the nation reckons with systemic inequity, Cleo Parker Robinson reflects on her company’s...
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In this essay, published Feb 5, 2021 in the New York Times, Michelle Alexander makes powerful connections between tipping and enslavement and calls for a livable minimum wage as a central component of racial and gender justice. Click here to go to New Y...
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The April 5, 2023 edition of Black Agenda Report features an open letter by my father first published in 1969 in “Negro Digest” — a monthly magazine of Black literature and scholarship published by Johnson Publications (home of “Eb...
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What we’re reading now: THEY GOT DADDY: ONE FAMILY’S RECKONING WITH RACISM AND FAITH, by Sharon Tubbs. A multigenerational family story of the Black South, migration north, and the connections between historical traumas and daily life in the 2...
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Looking for new and creative ways to commemorate Black History Month? Check out the Liberation Calendar — a month long set of reflections, inspirations, and community-building activities for individuals, families, organizations, classes, whoever w...
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The 2024 Bob Moses Legacy Conference is an online gathering in honor of Robert Parris Moses, legendary Civil Rights leader and organizer and founder of The Algebra Project. The Bob Moses Legacy Conference convenes organizers, activists, researchers, educa...
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In honor of the tenth anniversary of the publication of Rosemarie Freeney Harding’s memoir, REMNANTS, the Veterans of Hope Project and the Iliff School of Theology are pleased to co-sponsor a conversation among poet/activist Sonia Sanchez, public ...
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Last month Rachel was interviewed by Mitchell Atencio about holding on to encouragement in hard times, growing up with movement elders, and her mother’s teachings that all of us are capable of extraordinary things. Read here to see the full c...
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