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May 20, 2019

Billionaire Robert F. Smith to Pay Off Morehouse Grads’ Student Loans With $40M Gift

Billionaire philanthropist Robert F. Smith, declaring that the Class of 2019 was “my class,” did the unthinkable at the Morehouse College commencement ceremony Sunday. He pledged […]
May 18, 2019

What Meagan Good’s Negative Experiences Mean for the Church

Actress Meagan Good revealed that she sometimes avoids attending church because of judgmental Christians in an interview with comedian and radio host D.L. Hughley, reigniting online […]
May 18, 2019

National Antiracist Book Festival Highlights Christian Leaders Advancing Racial Justice

The Antiracist Research and Policy Institute at American University in Washington, D.C., hosted its first annual National Antiracist Book Festival on April 27, 2019. Organized by […]
May 8, 2019

New Video Shows What Sandra Bland Saw During Arrest by Texas Trooper

By WFAA-TV and Brian Collister and Eva Ruth Moravec, Investigative Network, May 6, 2019 WALLER COUNTY, Texas — New cellphone footage from the now infamous traffic […]
May 6, 2019

‘Resisting Eqaulity’ Looks at Citizens’ Council Hand in Duration of Racism

By Anders Walker How does racism survive?  This is one of the questions taken up by Stephanie Rolph in her new book, Resisting Equality: The Citizens’ Council, 1954-1989.  Born […]
May 6, 2019

Christian Founder Linked to More Than Me Rape Scandal Resigns

By Finlay Young for ProPublica, May 3, 2019 Monrovia, Liberia — Seven months ago, protesters thronged the streets here, demanding that the American charity More Than […]
May 6, 2019

The ‘Thoughts and Prayers’ Backlash

By John D. Harden and Marisa Iati, Investigative Reporting Workshop, April 23, 2019 On a July afternoon in 2012, Denton Dickerson logged onto Twitter to share […]
May 6, 2019

Faithfully Magazine’s Sacred Writes Partner Scholars Announced

We have great news to share about our previously announced partnership with Sacred Writes — three scholars have been selected to work with us to publish articles reflecting […]
April 27, 2019

The Case for African American Reparations, Explained

Joe R. Feagin, Texas A&M University For the first time, most major Democratic presidential contenders are talking about whether the U.S. government should consider paying reparations […]