The Vine SF at Grace Cathedral held a Beyoncé Mass on April 25 partnering with Professor and Reverend Yolanda Norton, lifting up the voices and lives of Black women and drawing on Beyoncé’s powerful music. The service grew out of Rev. Norton’s ” Beyoncé and the Hebrew Bible” class.
Palestinian people are, with the exceeding generosity of United States taxpayer funding, systemically disenfranchised and oppressed by policies of the Israeli state.
Eddie S. Glaude Jr. is the chair of the Center for African-American Studies and the William S. Tod Professor of Religion and African-American Studies at Princeton University.
Dr. Johnny Bernard Hill is the Dean of Shaw University School of Divinity in Raleigh, NC.
“We got too many Black folk loving everybody but Black people.” -Dr. Cornel West
The Millennial Womanism Project (TMWP) Presents “Millennial Womanists To Watch”
Emerging at the radical interstices of Martin Luther King Jr.’s black Christian faith that demanded justice, and Malcolm X’s resounding call for black power, Cone’s black theology of liberation fearlessly asserted racism as heresy and proclaimed a God of the oppressed who stood against racism in all its forms.
More than conversation on the scope of theological inquiry, what I think we have lost with the death of Dr. James Cone is a key model of rigorous engagement—a wrestling over ideas that didn’t truncate itself into personal animus and hurt feelings.
I decided to take my classes at Union Theological Seminary and to conduct my ministry praxis in Harlem at Convent Avenue Baptist Church and the Interreligious Foundation for Community Organization (IFCO) led by the Rev. Dr. Lucius Walker.
On Saturday morning, 29 April 2018, I received a text from my BFF, Rev. Dr. Kelly Brown Douglas that our beloved mentor, Dr. James Hal Cone had died. Although I’d anticipated this communiqué, my mind could not fully grasp the feelings my body held.
