One man was jailed for 28 years. Because a woman had a dream that she was raped by him. This is that person, Clarence Moses-El. One day in 1988, poor Clarence was relaxing at home when he was taken away by the police as a rape suspect. A hospitalized woman claimed that a black man Read More…
Matter-of-fact accounting of the legal mechanism of slavery provides insight into American history and the country’s fraught present Adria R Walker In late December, a group of people recorded themselves breaking into Howard University’s Benjamin E Mays Hall, which holds some of the school’s archives. The video, posted on to TikTok, shows them rummaging through Read More…
By KATHRYN POST (RNS) — When Black Americans leave religion, it’s rarely a clean break. Take Rogiérs Fibby, a self-described agnostic, atheist and secular humanist who grew up in the Moravian Church. The head of the Washington, D.C., chapter of the Black Secular Collective, Fibby also considers himself “culturally Christian.” “I know all the lingo, the Read More…
FILE – The headquarters of the Southern Baptist Convention is seen, Dec. 7, 2011, in Nashville, Tenn. The Southern Baptist Convention’s top administrative body voted Tuesday, Feb. 20, 2024, to oust four congregations — one for having a woman as senior minister, two for what it said were failures related to the denomination’s sexual-abuse policy Read More…
Prostitution is typically classified as a misdemeanor in Tennessee. But that’s not the case for sex workers living with HIV. By Lil Kalish The Justice Department sued the state of Tennessee on Thursday, alleging that the state imposes harsher criminal penalties on people who engage in sex work while living with HIV. The state has Read More…
