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PTM: 2020 Cultural Artifacts Part 1
Every year, we recap our favorite “cultural artifacts”. These can be books, albums, people, movies, TV shows, events….ANYTHING that got us through the year. There’s only one catch: these items do NOT have to come out this year. They just have to be consumed this year.
Place-Based Initiative for Reparations
Arkansas has a long history of pursuing racial justice and reparations. Learn how one organization is supporting The Witness Foundation and drawing recruits within the region
Review: Ma Rainey's Black Bottom
Adapted from August Wilson’s 1982 stage play, Ma Rainey tells the fictionalized story of recording artist Ma Rainey and her band as they record an album in Chicago. Set in the 1920s, the subjects of race, prejudice, and exploitation sit at the story’s forefront. The movie speaks to the Black condition in America both then and now.
Editor's Pick: A Psalm for a Time of Breathlessness
Lord, we cry out in our breathlessness for you.How long, O Lord, until we breathe again?
Southern Baptist seminary presidents reaffirm their commitment to whiteness
Southern Baptist leaders have chosen to prop up whiteness.It is ironic that in their statement, these Southern Baptist seminary presidents claim they are "standing against the tide of theological compromise."There is no form of theological compromise that is more American than vigorously opposing those who advocate for racial justice while remaining silent about the racism and whiteness running rampant in the church.