Lynching, nooses and the violence of silence

May 31, 2017.Reading time 10 minutes.

James Baldwin looked down at the red clay hills of Georgia and thought “that this earth had acquired its color from the blood that dripped down from the trees.” That lynching is a part of America’s troubled history cannot be overstated and yet it is not often talked about. Still, Billie Holiday sang of its […]

Before we say, ‘I forgive you’

December 5, 2015.Reading time 8 minutes.

I am in a place that I had not anticipated and certainly could not have prepared for. It is the same feeling that I had after the shooting of nine bowed heads at Mother Emmanuel AME Church in Charleston, S.C., on June 17, 2015. Dylann Roof, the alleged shooter, had hoped to start a race […]

The Raceless Gospel

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Lynching, nooses and the violence of silence

Before we say, ‘I forgive you’