By Jill Lepore — 2021
Efforts to rescue African American burial grounds and remains have exposed deep conflicts over inheritance and representation.
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Will the Black church become White? It sounds like a strange question. When my family watched the 2021 PBS documentary on the Black church, I noted the assumption by some of those interviewed that the Black church received its faith and theology as a part of the transatlantic slave trade.
In the past year and a half, Asian American Christians have been calling out the anti-Asian bias they see in their own congregations.
Barber makes clear his belief that the role of Christians is to call for social justice and allow the “rejected stones” of American society—the poor, people of color, women, LGBTQIA people, immigrants, religious minorities—to lead the way.