Why many Americans prefer their Sundays segregated
August 4, 2008
CNN has an insightful article on the reality that Sunday morning church is still the most segregated hour in America. Read the original article here, or for convenience the entire article is copied below:
“Demographic Inversion”
August 4, 2008
An article in The New Republic outlines the dramatic demographic inversion of the American city. This shift has profound implications for issues of race, poverty, and gentrification. Read the original article here, or for convenience the entire article is copied below:
How to Buy a Child in 10 Hours
July 8, 2008
ABC news has an excellent story about child slavery. Link to the article here complete with compelling video footage, or for convenience the entire article is copied below:
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Dean Kamen’s Solution to the World’s Water Problems
April 22, 2008
In the News: There is a lot of buzz surrounding the water-purifying machine that Segway inventor Dean Kamen demonstrated on the Colbert Report recently (clip below). Everyone has been trying to find out more about his claim that “you stick a hose into anything that looks wet … and it comes out … as perfect distilled clean water.” So far, it looks like it is all true.
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Obama’s Speech: A More Perfect Union
March 18, 2008
Barack Obama spoke this morning in Philadelphia, PA at Constitution Center, on matters race and of the fundamental path by which America can work together to pursue a better future.
Regardless of your politics the insight and resolve Barack Obama shows in this speech deserve attention and reflection by all. The issue of race and the role it plays in achieving a just society still weighs heavily on the American people in our relationships and our politics.
Listen to Obama call out and name these issues and their root causes. In issues of race and inequality in America — what does the LORD require?.
Here is a video of the full speech and the entire transcript is copied below:
In the News: Ending Famine in Malawi
December 2, 2007
What does it take to bring an impoverished nation from famine to surplus? An excellent article in the New York Times tells how Malawi, one of the poorest countries in the world, suffering from famine, drought, poverty, and diseases like HIV/AIDS, malaria, tuberculosis, and hepatitis, with at least 1 million are orphans out of a population of 12 million, has done just that…
Link to the Times article: Ending Famine, Simply be Ignoring the Experts here or for convenience the entire article is copied below:
The Jena 6 and “stealth” racism in the U.S.
September 20, 2007
What do three nooses hung from a tree in response to a black student sitting in its “whites only” shade say about racism in America? Volumes. Today over 20,000 people from all 50 states marched on Jena, LA. This is an issue that everyone needs be familiar with.
The incident one year ago and the events following came to boiling point as six black students found themselves facing life in prison for beating a white student in retaliation. Now the trials begin, lines are being drawn, movements are forming all over the web and in towns across the country, and tensions are high in Jena, LA as we once again must struggle with our shared history of racism in America.
The situation is much more layered and complex than you might garner from the nightly news. Rather that trying to recap all the details here it would be best to review the growing Wikipedia article on the Jena 6 here.
Were the nooses merely a “tasteless prank?’ Was the beating nothing more than a “school yard fight?” Does this prove racism and bias in the justice system is still alive and strong in the US?
Of course the media is weighing in on every channel. Here are a couple of clips to bring you up to speed.
A”Free the Jena 6″ campaign is building support online, you can learn more and sign their petition here.
When three nooses are hung from a tree — what does the LORD require?
In the News: Africans to Bono: ‘For God’s sake please stop!’
July 7, 2007
With all of the megastar attention to the needs in Africa, and public awareness reaching all time highs, voices from inside Africa have begun to raise a new concern: STOP flooding
In the News: Why Income Inequality Matters
January 10, 2007
Today in Yahoo! Finance Charles Wheelan, Ph.D., lecturer in public policy at the Harris School of Public Policy at the University of Chicago, has written an intriguing article on why income inequality matters. Read on for a lot of great points worth thinking about and worthy of discussion.
In The News: Bush Has Quietly Tripled Aid to Africa
December 31, 2006
It seems that despite the media attention to the ONE campaign it has gone a little unnoticed that the amount of aid that the US is sending to Africa has been tripled with more aid promised. The Washington Post has an interesting article about the varying viewpoints surrounding this issue and how it was the Evangelical community that brought this agenda to the Whitehouse. There are a lot of interesting (and controversial) concepts here to discuss.
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