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Nestled at the foot of the Edmund Pettus Bridge, the National Voting Rights Museum and Institute chronicles and preserves public memory of the centuries-long struggle for true democracy in the United States of America. The struggle did not...
My Prayer on Edmund Pettus Bridge
I was honored to be asked to offer a prayer at the conclusion of the All Roads Lead to the South march across Selma’s Edmund Pettus Bridge. This was my prayer…
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They are going after , the prolific UK-based photographer who documents the global struggle against oppression in hues of black-and-white. Four traditional UK press organizations recently published pieces that took Mr. Harriman’s words out...
Masala Chai Theology: Genealogy as Resistance with Lisa Sharon Harper
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President/Founder of FreedomRoad.us, writer, podcaster, public theologian, author of Fortune: How Race Broke My Family And The World—And How To Repair It All
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Making radio and writing in Chicago
Author of 26 Books: Earthbound; When God Became White; Invisible; Hope in Disarray; Keeping Hope Alive || Professor at Earlham School of Religion || Host of Madang Podcast with Baptist News Global
We are working to shrink the narrative gap by identifying core issues and building community capacity so they might work toward common solutions for a just world.
Author of We Mend with Gold: An Immigrant Daughter's Reckoning with American Christianity, out with Broadleaf Books in April 2026. Writer, reader, book reviewer on IG @ktlee.writes. Embracing imperfection, hope, justice, and joy.
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Choose Democracy stands against this current administrative coup. We’re democracy-loving people. We share practical actions and lessons from around the globe to fight authoritarians.
NYT Bestselling Author of Be the Bridge. Speaker. ✝️ Teaching justice as a way of life. Resident Auntie. Founder & CEO of Be the Bridge,equipping people for racial healing and reconciliation.
LaTosha Brown is a social justice activist, co-founder of Black Voters Matter Fund, and founder of Southern Black Girls & Women’s Consortium. A Glamour Woman of the Year and Forbes 50 Over 50 honoree, she’s also a musician and playwright.
Visual explanations for real people. Cup pyramids, clean data, straight talk … Truth should be easy to see. Email: [email protected]
Following Jesus without bowing to empire. Professor, author, and co-host of InVerse Podcast. Books: Making It Plain (2024) Reparations and the Theological Disciplines (2023) Who Will Be A Witness? (2020) Trouble I've Seen (2016)
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