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Marriage, the classic union between a man and a woman, is used as a model for many things. When talking about successful sports teams, business partnerships, and even school projects, people use the institution of marriage to inspire and direct all those involved. In Christian circles, you might even hear marriage terms used in sermons about [...]

For the shackles And the lynchings And the rapes For the denials (of my dignity, my contributions, my humanity) For the denegration The slurs The bombings Water hoses And dogs For inequality And neglect The blindness (yours and mine) The affirmative non-action (killing my dignity, my contributions, my intelligence) The oppression The suppression Misrepresentation Baracades Injustice Disengaged Second-rate (I’m your follower, never your leader, your inspiration, your friend, your family) loser For revised history And profiling And [...]

Tucked tightly in among some dusty books on the overflowing stacks in Stevens Bookstore, I found it: Tom Skinner’s How Black is the Gospel. That was my first brush with the gospel according to Dr. Skinner, New York gangster turned evangelist/prophet. I have read the book from cover to cover, many times, dissecting it so I [...]

Here’s a little yellow and white book with a shocking title. Selected and arranged by Ella Mazel, it’s been around since 1998 so you might have seen it. Despite the shocking title, it’s not a finger wagging tsking white-folks-bashing book. And it’s not big but it packs some major punch. From Ms. Mazel’s Web site: “Most of [...]

When Dr. King died, I was sill in diapers. Ford’s new muscle care, the Mustang, was brand new but the civil rights struggle was not. I imagine that my parents and paternal grandmother, who played a huge role in my early development, tried to keep the turmoil of the times away from me as a toddled [...]