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I attended a conference session called, “Defusing the Power of Toxic Religion for Sexual Advocacy,†because I’m writing a memoir…
I’m a storyteller. By the time my next NCR column is published, I will have successfully completed my thesis and…
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I started unpacking at 11:00 pm, almost as soon as I walked through the door. And as the contents of…
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You may ask for freedom only if you live above reproach. That was the message to enslaved black people in…
My church did Resurrection Sunday differently this year. The Drama Ministry and Choir conducted the whole service, except for the…
I’m among the million or so people who have seen NFL player Benjamin Watson’s Facebook post about Ferguson, but in…
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This inconsistency between black identity and Christianity’s role in the oppression of black people is something I think all black…
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At the Emancipation Day parade in Trinidad, something happened that I didn’t expect: Jesus showed up. The truck we had…
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This should be a post about masculinity and female sexual expression as observed and/or experienced from the dance floor of…
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Despite the photos I’m posting on Facebook and Twitter, this trip isn’t all, or even 10%, about the beach. It’s…
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I write about my life of “existing in many spaces at once, holding multiple identities and not quite serving…
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In “The Comfort of a Sweet, Black, Dreadlocked Jesus,” I recalled the image of Jesus Christ as depicted in a painting…
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What makes me a feminist? I’ve been thinking about this question since my feminism history class last night. We were…
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I watched a video on Facebook today of a little who might have been four or five years old mimicking…
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A note about today’s post: I have a bi-weekly column on National Catholic Reporter, and I plan to use these…
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Dear Ms. Rhimes: Most of the time, I love you and you make me regret not sticking it…
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I have a problem with obedience—not necessarily the action, but the idea of it. Obedience implies acts done with or…
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The full name of this blog is Redbone Afropuff & Black GRITS. I generally ignore the part after “and†because…
I stumbled upon the above tweets a few days ago in the timeline of Jonathan Merritt, author of “A Faith…
Disclaimer: The following post is based on information that’s come down a chain. Names have been omitted to protect those…
This Op-Ed was published in the Courier-Journal on Aug. 12, 2011, and it can’t be found on the Courier-Journal’s website….
Based on what we’re used to seeing, whether he’s Muslim or not, President Obama definitely couldn’t be a Christian.