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Protest and Liberation
angelu • 2 cards
In 1962, the Civil Rights Movement was in full swing and dominated the American landscape. Blacks organized and moved to attain freedom and equality, and in that effort black song and singing served to galvanize, protect, chronicle, and empower.
Leonard Brown • John Coltrane and Black America's Quest for Freedom: Spirituality and the Music
A Song for Soweto
poetryfoundation.org
She wanted faculty and students to join her and guide her in reclaiming and retrieving what had been broken into pieces and scattered to the wind—the sounds, sensibilities, wisdom, knowledge, and life strategies of multiple peoples made black by a colonialist brush. But no one understood this as theological work to be done.
Willie James Jennings • After Whiteness: An Education in Belonging (Theological Education between the Times (TEBT))
cldavisii • Representing the “Architextural” Musings of June Jordan
Social Justice
Daevyd Pepper • 3 cards
I am what time, circumstance, history, have made of me, certainly, but I am, also, much more than that. So are we all. The conundrum of color is the inheritance of every American, be he/she legally or actually Black or White. It is a fearful inheritance, for which untold multitudes, long ago, sold their birthright. Multitudes are doing so, until
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