“I wanted the world to see what they did to my baby.” – Mamie Till-Mobley Wrapped in a bronze-colored metal lattice, with a structure fashioned after the three-tiered crowns used in Yoruban art from West Africa, the National Museum of African-American History and Culture covers 5 acres on the National Mall in Washington, D.C. This …
Continue...This weekend has been designated Racial Reconciliation Sunday by the Southern Baptist Convention. Here are five facts you should know about the SBC and its efforts to unify all races within the Kingdom of God. 1. In 1814, Baptist churches in the U.S. joined together to create the General Missionary Convention of the Baptist Denomination. …
Continue...Today, Americans will be celebrating Juneteenth, the oldest nationally celebrated commemoration of the ending of slavery. Here are five facts you should know about the longest running African-American holiday. 1. On Sept. 22, 1862, in the midst of the Civil War, President Lincoln announced that if the rebels did not end the fighting and rejoin …
Continue...The following is an extract by Natasha Sistrunk Robinson as part of her contribution to the new book Beautifully Distinct: Conversations with Friends on Faith, Life, and Culture. Racism and society I often compare racism to pollution. It is created by humans, it negatively impacts every one of us, and because it has been around for …
Continue...This is a year a lot of us would rather forget. In my lifetime, I cannot remember any other period that had so many individual disruptions to our normal ways of life, much less the kind of disruptions we’ve faced in 2020. The year began in the U.S. with the impeachment of the president and …
Continue...Trillia Newbell is the director of community outreach at the ERLC. Timothy Paul Jones is a professor and associate vice president at The Southern Baptist Theological Seminary. Erica Ho is a wife, mom, and the community coordinator at One Orphan. Lindsay Nicolet: As children witness instances of racism, how would you help them understand and process what …
Continue...I turned off the video the first several times I tried to watch it. I couldn’t bear the thought of what I knew would be pictured. Many people, from what I hear, had a similar reaction. The violence was so raw that it was painful to watch. And so many other videos and images, showing …
Continue...In the past decade, our country has experienced much racial tension. Events in Ferguson, New York, Cleveland, Charleston, and Charlottesville have revealed the ugly wounds of racism still present in American life. And often, the very place where the message of the gospel—the same gospel that eradicates ethnocentrism—is preached, is the place where carnal divisions …
Continue...On the third Monday of each January, we honor the memory of Martin Luther King Jr. and his work in protesting racial discrimination and promoting racial reconciliation. The Ethics and Religious Liberty Commission is committed to upholding the human dignity of every individual and advancing the cause of racial reconciliation. The gospel, at its …
Continue...The story of The Southern Baptist Theological Seminary is filled with paradoxes. That is the major finding of the recently released “Report on Slavery and Racism in the History of the Southern Baptist Theological Seminary.” The same faculty who supported slavery later taught Greek to freed African-Americans in their offices and homes. The same seminary …
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