James

James, by Percival Everett A Book Review The novel, James, won the 2024 Kirkus Prize, the National Book Award for Fiction, and the 2025 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction. Dwight Garner of the New York Times called it “Majestic”. The Atlantic called it “Genius”. These sources...

John 4.1-45

Now when Jesus learned that the Pharisees had heard that Jesus was making and baptizing more disciples than John (although Jesus himself did not baptize, but only his disciples), he left Judea and departed again for Galilee. And he had to pass through Samaria. So he...

Democratic Racism

Much of the Republican Party seems intent on committing hara kiri via fawning obeisance to Donald Trump. In spite of this party foolishness, it is baffling that most Black Americans remain loyal to the Democratic Party, which can’t seem to formulate a platform that...

Something Happened In Our Town

Something Happened In Our Town is a book written by Marianne Celano, Marietta Collins, and Ann Hazzard from the Emory University School of Medicine. A Marshall University article about the book commented: “This New York Times and Indiebound bestseller is written by...

Racism at Smith College

By Michael Powell, Feb. 24, 2021 NORTHAMPTON, Mass. — In midsummer of 2018, Oumou Kanoute, a Black student at Smith College, recounted a distressing American tale: She was eating lunch in a dorm lounge when a janitor and a campus police officer walked over and asked...

How the Left Hijacked Civil Rights

By Robert L. Woodson Sr. and Joshua Mitchell The civil-rights movement, led by the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr., helped deliver America from the historic sins of slavery and Jim Crow by forcing the nation to confront the full humanity of its black citizens. King’s...