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What is Christian Socialism? (opens the original)
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[This article will appear in the Sept/Oct issue of Bias magazine]Socialism is popularly portrayed as some kind of authoritarian, anti-democratic, murderous Josef Stalin-like, anti-Christian force. But that is far from the truth.There is no exact definition of socialism. Yet, except for discredited top-down, authoritarian approaches, since the concept emerged in the mid-19th century in response to the ravages of the Industrial Revolution, every form of socialism has shared the same goals: to give
James Baldwin, Me, and the Stupidity of Homophobia: A Cautionary Tale (opens the original)
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This is a story I tell my students. It is quite embarrassing, but I guess that is the point.As I’ve shared in the past, my formative years, from my mid-teens onward, were spent in the Black Cultural Nationalist movement, in an organization in Newark, NJ, headed by the political revolutionary and acclaimed literary figure, Amiri Baraka (aka Leroi Jones). That experience introduced me to some of the foremost luminaries in the progressive jazz and Black Arts literary scenes. When I began working in
A Backhanded Trumpian Compliment to Big-Time Jelani Cobb (by a Very Smart GuY) (opens the original)
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No, my friend, I’m not coming to see you in conversation with Nicole-Hannah Jones at Columbia’s annual Shawn “Jay-Z” Carter Lecture on Friday, September 18 from 6:30 to 8:00pm at the Bollinger Forum, 601 W, 125th Street, NYC 10027. I’m tired of you always being the guy who’s called on to speak and ask folks questions and give commentary and stuff like that. Just because you are the Dean of the Big-Time Columbia School of Journalism and you know Big Words and have write wrote award-winning, best-
September 11, 2001: Facing Up to Why it Happened (opens the original)
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I was living in Dayton, Ohio, at the time, the president of a small theological college. It was a little before 9:00am. I was readying to head to the office when the phone rang. It was a friend in Detroit calling with a frantic voice telling me to turn on my television. The screen revealed a scene I couldn’t readily make sense of: flame and smoke billowing from one of the two easily recognizable Twin Towers of the World Trade Center. All I could imagine was that it was the result of a bombing, o
A Labor Day Reprise: Trump and the Christo-Nationalists’ Onslaught on Labor (opens the original)
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Recently, PRRI, the polling firm, reported that despite Donald Trump’s glaring anti-democratic sentiments, hateful rhetoric, vile misogyny, moral degeneracy and obvious racism, he still has the overwhelming support of American Christians: 83% of white evangelical Protestants, 60% of white non-evangelical Protestants, and 61% of white Catholics stand behind him. In the late stages of this presidential campaign, Trump has tried to present himself as a friend of labor by staging photo ops at a McDo
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