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SOUTHERN BAPTIST SEMINARY TO KEEP SLAVEHOLDER NAMES ON BUILDINGS; CREATES $5M SCHOLARSHIP FOR BLACK STUDENTS

Southern Baptist Theological Seminary leadership has voted to keep the names of school founders who owned slaves on buildings, but also approved the creation of a $5 million scholarship for African-American students. At their recent fall meeting, SBTS trustees unanimously voted to keep names like founding president James P. Boyce and founding faculty members John Broadus, Basil […]

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ATLANTA BEYOND MLK: HOW BLACK CHRISTIANS CONTINUE A CIVIL RIGHTS LEGACY

From my apartment in Midtown Atlanta, I could hear the helicopters above the protesters after the murder of Rayshard Brooks in June. By then, demonstrators had been in the streets for weeks, incensed by the recent killings of George Floyd, Breonna Taylor, and Ahmaud Arbery. In cities across the country, crowds were marching for black

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AMY CONEY BARRETT RESPONDS TO PROFESSOR’S ‘CRUEL’ ACCUSATION HER BLACK CHILDREN ARE ‘PROPS’

U.S. Supreme Court nominee Judge Amy Coney Barrett responded to a professor’s attacks against her family and the targeting of her two adopted children from Haiti during her confirmation hearings on Tuesday. Sen. John Kennedy, R-La., gave her the opportunity to weigh in on comments made by Ibram X. Kendi, whom he described as “some

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