Selma
In tornado-ravaged Selma, prayers of thanks
By Kim Chandler — January 18, 2023
SELMA, Ala. (AP) — The Sunday after a tornado devastated much of the historic city of Selma, church congregations raised up prayers of gratitude for lives spared and gave prayers of comfort for lives lost elsewhere to the storm.
Albert Raboteau, expert on African American religious history, dead at 78
By Adelle M. Banks — September 24, 2021
(RNS) — The scholar ‘was the Godfather of Afro-American Religious Studies & the North Star of deep Christian political sensibilities!’ said colleague Cornel West.
Christian ethicist Donald W. Shriver Jr., who called America to repent of racism, dies
By Yonat Shimron — August 9, 2021
(RNS) — The former president of Union Theological Seminary in New York, Shriver believed public repentance was the only hope for 'a future less evil than our pasts.'
King convinced me to give my whole life to the church and his dream
By Malcolm Clemens Young — March 30, 2018
SAN FRANCISCO (RNS) — Above all, what most impresses me all these years later is the power of Martin Luther King Jr.’s message. It is the antithesis to the 'America First' slogan.
Why civil rights and LGBT equality are joined at the hip
By guest — June 1, 2016
(RNS) The black community and the LGBT community are not mutually exclusive and neither “community” is monolithic. We are interconnected by our humanity.
Holocaust Museum to honor civil rights leader
By Cathy Lynn Grossman — May 3, 2016
WASHINGTON (RNS) During the Days of Remembrance for the Holocaust, the congressman and activist will be honored as “an inspiration to people of conscience the world over.”
How Ferguson and now Baltimore are altering our perception of law enforcement (COMMENTARY)
By Tom Ehrich — April 28, 2015
(RNS) A nation grounded in laws and justice requires a trained cadre whose work is to enforce laws fairly. We thought we had that cadre.
PHOTOS: Lost images of the march from Selma, 50 years later
By Sally Morrow — March 24, 2015
(RNS) "We didn't know what would happen when we reached the capitol. We were singing the civil rights song, 'I Am Not Afraid,' but, yes, I was afraid."
‘Selma sowed, but it did not reap’; anniversary puts spotlight on deep poverty
By Aamer Madhani — March 9, 2015
SELMA, Ala. (RNS) In many ways time has stood still in this community of 20,000 that was at the center of the push that culminated with the Voting Rights Act of 1965.
The road from Selma was paved with the blood of four unsung martyrs
By Adelle M. Banks — March 5, 2015
(RNS) A Baptist deacon, a minister, a Unitarian laywoman and an Episcopal seminarian sacrificed their lives in connection with the Alabama voting rights protests.
‘Bloody Sunday’ altered history of a horrified nation
By Marty Roney — March 4, 2015
(RNS) Images of that day 50 years ago, when law enforcement officers beat back peaceful civil rights marchers trying to cross Alabama's Edmund Pettus Bridge, provided the catalyst for passage of the Voting Rights Act.
Malcolm Boyd, the gay rights icon you’ve probably never heard of
By Jay Michaelson — March 2, 2015
(RNS) One gets the sense that the Rev. Malcolm Boyd and many others like him were a little too religious for the liberals, and too liberal for the religious.
U.S. churchgoers still sit in segregated pews, and most are OK with that
By Cathy Lynn Grossman — January 16, 2015
WASHINGTON (RNS) But beware, said LifeWay Research director Ed Stetzer: "If you don't like diversity, you're really not going to like heaven."
Ralph Abernathy: Martin Luther King Jr.’s overlooked ‘civil rights twin’
By Adelle M. Banks — January 15, 2015
(RNS) “They used to call them the civil rights twins -- he and Dr. King,” recalled Terrie Randolph, who was Ralph Abernathy’s secretary when he became president of SCLC after King’s death. “You wouldn’t see one without the other."
Police chief to black churches: ‘We can’t do this without you guys’
By Adelle M. Banks — January 9, 2015
(RNS) As racial tensions continue to simmer in the wake of the deaths of unarmed black men at the hands of white officers in Ferguson, Mo., New York City and elsewhere, churches have offered themselves up as trusted go-betweens for the police and angry residents, particularly in black communities.
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