Charlottesville
Columbia University is another Charlottesville
By Jeffrey Salkin — April 24, 2024
(RNS) — Columbia University protests are like Charlottesville’s ‘Unite the Right’ rally: Discuss. Welcome to an academic disgrace.
Charlottesville’s Robert E. Lee statue melted down
By Jack Jenkins and Adelle M. Banks — October 26, 2023
(RNS) — ‘It’s taking that culture of death and repurposing it for the sake of life, telling this very long story of resistance to that white supremacist culture,’ said the Rev. Isaac Collins, a Methodist minister who attended the melting.
Leo Frank’s ghost still haunts American Jews
By Jeffrey Salkin — November 7, 2022
(RNS) — This is not only about antisemitism. This is about political violence. This is a story for today.
Amy Spitalnick, who took on neo-Nazis in Charlottesville, is moving to Bend the Arc
By Yonat Shimron — August 9, 2022
(RNS) — In November, Spitalnick will become CEO of the left-leaning organization that blends community organizing, political advocacy and leadership training.
A transqueer Latinx theologian writes about reaching ‘A Path to Our Liberation’
By Alejandra Molina — April 18, 2022
(RNS) — 'It's important for me as a trans person, as Latinx, to take place and to bear witness that even someone like me can follow the ways of Jesus and maybe imagine another possible world.'
The Unite the Right rally changed her life. She now wants to defeat white nationalism.
By Yonat Shimron — November 26, 2021
(RNS) — Since that searing summer day four years ago, Rabbi Rachel Schmelkin has devoted herself to better understanding what happened and working to make sure it never happens again.
White supremacists found liable for violence at Charlottesville rally
By Jack Jenkins — November 23, 2021
(RNS) — Clergy were among the plaintiffs who brought the case against the white supremacists.
Conspiracies about a ‘catastrophic takeover’ by Jews have long been an American problem
By Jonathan D. Sarna — November 22, 2021
(The Conversation) — In the late 19th century, a satiric weekly stoked fears about how Jewish immigrants would change New York City’s character.
Larry David curbs his enthusiasm for Judaism
By Jeffrey Salkin — November 17, 2021
(RNS) — I wouldn't call the ADL on him. Not yet, anyway.
The battle over CRT is a manufactured crisis. Here’s why we still have to fight it.
By Khyati Y. Joshi — August 18, 2021
(RNS) — Teachers and administrators are bracing for an attack that is rushing toward them like a tsunami.
Don’t believe in systemic racism? Let’s talk about the sexual revolution.
By Karen Swallow Prior — July 12, 2021
(RNS) — One need not embrace critical race theory to recognize that systemic racism exists.
How a rally for the right in Charlottesville emboldened a resurgent Religious Left
By Jack Jenkins — April 17, 2020
(RNS) — From a new book by RNS correspondent Jack Jenkins that chronicles a new era of progressive activism and the hard work of reforging connections and reckoning with past mistakes required to revive a movement.
Johnny Cash’s gospel versus the temptations of nationalism
By Richard Beck — January 10, 2020
(RNS) — Cash was an outspoken patriot, and his patriotism made the gospel messages found in his music vulnerable to distortion.
Courtiers and kings, evangelicals, prophets and Trump
By John Fea — January 8, 2020
(RNS) — If evangelical leaders don't oppose the president's worst behavior with prophetic witness, they are complicit in his sins.
Faith-based protesters flock to Washington to counter white supremacists
By Jack Jenkins — August 12, 2018
WASHINGTON (RNS) Methodists, Baptists, Quakers and other religious counter-demonstrators far outnumbered the white supremacists assembled for the 'Unite the Right 2' rally in D.C. on Sunday.
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