Black Church

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• SOURCE: Made By History at the Washington Post
  12/6/2021
  

  For Black Americans, Spaces of Sanctuary have been a Matter of Survival

  by Alicia K. Jackson

  "In reality, much of African American history is the story of Americans creating their own sense of sanctuary in a land that often seems antithetical to their presence and their needs."

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• SOURCE: MSNBC
  11/18/2021
  

  Black Clergy's Presence at Trial of Arbery's Killers is Nothing Unusual

  by Keisha N. Blain

  Black clergy have always taken leadership in challenges to racist violence; the trial judge has no good reason to bar their attendance.

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• SOURCE: New York Times
  2/16/2021
  

  Henry Louis Gates Jr. on African-American Religion

  Jon Meacham reviews Henry Louis Gates's book on the Black church in America; Gates seeks to recover the traditions of social and political activism in churches against skeptics who identify religion with conservatism and quietude.