civil rights
What we won’t hear on Martin Luther King Day, and what we need to hear
By Cheryl Townsend Gilkes — January 17, 2022
(RNS) — Our memory of King’s ‘Dream’ speech has been reduced to sanitized sound bites.
How the Vietnam War pushed MLK to embrace global justice, not only civil rights at home
By Anthony Siracusa — January 13, 2022
(The Conversation) — MLK’s vision for nonviolence included abolishing what he called triple evils – racism, poverty and militarism.
Bob Moses, civil rights leader, led us to imagine the end of racism
By A. James Rudin — July 26, 2021
(RNS) — The great educator and civil rights leader reminds us that there may be no more noble cause than democracy.
Tulsa pastors honor ‘holy ground’ 100 years after massacre
By Peter Smith — May 31, 2021
TULSA, Okla. (AP) — Six congregations gathered to mark the centennial of the massacre and to honor the persistence of the Black church tradition in Greenwood.
Derek Chauvin’s guilty verdict might be an exodus for America
By Charlie Dates — April 21, 2021
(RNS) — Chauvin's verdict is an opportunity for the liberation of all Americans.
On an Easter shadowed by the Lorraine Motel, recommit to justice
By J. Lawrence Turner — April 1, 2021
(RNS) — Fifty-three years after MLK's assassination, we must transform a place of bloodshed into inspiration for a better world.
The creeping radicalization of white evangelicals
By Doug Pagitt — February 25, 2021
(RNS) — Our faith itself is not to blame. But evangelicals need to take a hard look at the other influences on our community.
Black history can’t be told without the Bible
By Nicole Martin — February 18, 2021
(RNS) — Black Christian heroes knew that the Bible had to be at the center of life as free men and women in the United States.
Moms of Martin Luther King Jr., Malcolm X and James Baldwin portrayed in new book
By Adelle M. Banks — January 15, 2021
(RNS) — The book by Anna Malaika Tubbs about Alberta King, Louise Little and Berdis Baldwin provides details of their lives of faith, discipline and sacrifice.
Robert Graetz, a white Lutheran minister who supported Montgomery bus boycott, has died
By Bob Smietana — September 21, 2020
(RNS) — Rev. Robert Graetz faced death threats and derision for his support of the Montgomery bus boycott and Rev. Martin Luther King Jr.
Rev. Gil Caldwell, United Methodist civil rights and gay rights activist, dead at 86
By Adelle M. Banks — September 8, 2020
(RNS) — Caldwell said his application to Duke Divinity School was rejected in the mid-1950s because of his race. He visited the campus some 60 years later.
Harris’ nomination shows why representation matters, but is not enough
By Simran Jeet Singh — August 12, 2020
(RNS) — The Democratic vice presidential nominee has to show the moral courage to address her own role in perpetuating systems that drag underrepresented communities down.
The challenge civil rights giants leave us
By Jim Wallis and Adam Taylor — July 27, 2020
(RNS) — We can honor these civil rights giants by voting to elect leaders at every level who are committed to transforming public safety so that everyone can experience equal justice under the law.
Teachers at religious schools fear Supreme Court took away their civil rights
By Yonat Shimron — July 22, 2020
(RNS) — This month’s Supreme Court ruling established that any religious school teacher who performs a religious function is beyond the reach of civil rights protections accorded to other workers.
John Lewis, preaching politician and civil rights activist, dies at 80
By Adelle M. Banks — July 18, 2020
(RNS) — From childhood, when Lewis preached to chickens on his family farm, to his twilight years, faith was the fuel of his life.
