I was recently invited to preach at Walker Memorial Baptist Church in Washington, D.C. We met via Zoom (of course) to finalize the details and to introduce ourselves to each other. Each preacher would enter the sanctuary to be filmed individually. We would preach to empty pews and take our cues from the balcony where […]
The world is turned upside down. The contents of our lives dumped out on the floor. We try to pick up where we started off from but more than three months in hiding from the Coronavirus, we don’t know where to begin. What did we use to do again? All home now, we are all coming home now […]
No statements. We didn’t ask for you to tell us what we already saw on cellphone videos and know for ourselves. We’ve seen this before. The violation of the rights of African Americans is not new and neither is their murder; it’s been done before and with each generation. Instead, let us know when you […]
Recently, the news has covered incidents involving African American persons being physically and verbally assaulted, bullied, disturbed, falsely arrested, harassed and questioned for doing things considered normal in any other context or culture, that is, barbecuing, eating, shopping, sitting on one’s porch, sleeping, vacationing. Persons would argue that there is an increase in such episodes. […]
Feet to pavement, people are marching all over the country. Every month, there seems to be a new outcry. Life in America has become one of continual outrage. Speaking for one segment of the population and at a time that doesn’t seem too distant now, James Baldwin stated quite emphatically, “To be a Negro in […]