Does Obama Have A "Black Agenda"?
Ann Neumann: At WaPo‘s On Faith blog, a bit of helpful background on President Obama’s meeting yesterday with 20 black religious leaders. And some skepticism from Boyce Watkins at The Grio.
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Does Obama Have A “Black Agenda”?
Ann Neumann: At WaPo‘s On Faith blog, a bit of helpful background on President Obama’s meeting yesterday with 20 black religious leaders. And some skepticism from Boyce Watkins at The Grio.
Parks and the Movement Church
By Raegan Johnson In the wake of Rosa Park’s death, The New York Times published an article about the condition of the civil rights movement today and what it could Continue Reading →
High-Impact Black Conservatism
Says Bishop Harry Jackson, the most visible African American religious leader aligned with the conservative movement: “High impact African-American churches are creating high impact leaders who are developing high impact Continue Reading →
The Valuable Value of Values
A fine example of the uncritical approach the mainstream press takes to most religion stories can be found in today’s Denver Post, in a report on a Christian academy that’s Continue Reading →
Black Christians, the Homosexuality Debate, and the American Creed
Malcolm X used to tell blacks to put aside their religious differences in order to confront their common oppressor, but lately it’s not so clear who that common oppressor is.
By Kim Pearson
All of a sudden, it matters tremendously what black Christians all over the world think about sexuality. When the Episcopal Church of the United States of America consecrated openly gay clergyman Eugene V. Robinson as Bishop of New Hampshire in 2003, African and Caribbean leaders of the Anglican Church led the revolt that has brought the denomination to the brink of a historic split. When, in June 2003, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled in Lawrence v. Texas that anti-sodomy laws were unconstitutional, social and political conservatives salivated over the prospect that opinion polls showing heightened African-American opposition to gay marriage might cause some black American voters to vote Republican. Republican pollster Richard Wirthlin advised his party that the marriage issue could be a “great wedge issue” for Republican candidates in 2004. Continue Reading →