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HOW CAN AMERICA ENCOURAGE DEMOCRACY ABROAD WHEN POLICE AT HOME MURDER UNARMED MALE AND FEMALE AFRICAN AMERICANS IN THE STREETS, AT THEIR HOMES, IN SCHOOLS AND IN JAILS
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When the church you call home mocks you; when the community you live in blames you; when your workplace doesn't value you; when the police won't protect you; and when all forms of public media degrades you...where do you turn for sanctuary?
The Role of the Faith Community and, particularly, the Black Church in working towards the liberation of God’s people from the lingering effects of the oppressive European slave trade.
Rev. Joan Harrell of Empowering Voices Speaks with American political activist, scholar, and author - Dr. Angela Davis
The Northern States Christian and Elders Forum has released 180 names of abducted female pupils of Government Girls’ Secondary School, Chibok, Borno State. We Speak Your Names. 1 Deborah Abge Chrstian 2. Awa Abge ” 3. Hauwa Yirma ” 4. Asabe Manu ” 5. Mwa Malam pogu ” 6. Patiant Dzakwa ” 7. Saraya Mal....
The concept of rape marriage is not unique to these villains or their perversion of Islam. The Jewish and Christian scriptures have their own rape texts.
These Nigerian girls are our daughters; black girls everywhere are our daughters and their lives matter. We are commanded to love our neighbors as we love ourselves, so may we do for these Nigerian children what we would do if 234 girls from Germany or Spain or Ireland were kidnapped from their dorm rooms - turn the world upside down until they are found.
Nicole C. Lee, Esq has resigned as president of TransAfrica, the legendary rights organization which became a nonprofit in 1977 and is famous for its historic work to free the late Nelson Mandela from imprisonment. Lee was the first woman to lead the organization. Her eight-year term was second in length to Randall Robinson, the founder of the organization.
Are black girls such a cheap commodity that their lives can be quickly erased from the human balance sheet?
Maurice Carney is a co-founder and Executive Director of the Friends of the Congo. He speaks with Rev. Joan R. Harrell of Empowering Voices.
