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Why do African-American churches get a pass on politics in the pulpit?
- RNS: At Bishop Barber’s NC church, Pete Buttigieg works to woo black voters
- WLOS: Bernie Sanders: Scripture calls for renewed focus on justice in US
- NYT: To prepare for his presidential run, Michael R. Bloomberg visited a predominantly black church in Brooklyn recently
- RNS: As Democrats vie for African American votes, the black church is paying attention
- RNS: Democratic hopefuls talk prayer and politics at black church forum
- THE NEW YORKER: How Democratic candidates win the African-American vote
WIKIPEDIA: The Johnson Amendment
New book: Rosa Parks refusing to give up her seat was a pre-planned event staged by the NAACP
“The NAACP not only staged events. it scripted them…One example is Rosa Parks. Over decades, Black History Month has taught millions of schoolchildren to think of her as a ‘tired seamstress,’ whose need to rest her weary legs in the white section of a Montgomery, Alabama, city bus unleashed a storm of spontaneous protests. But she was considerably more than that. Five months before the Montgomery bus boycott began, she attended the Highlander Folk School in New Market, Tennessee, an academy that the Congress of Industrial Organizations had set up for training social agitators. She was an organizer of considerable sophistication, one of the intellectual leaders of the Montgomery NAACP chapter. [Christopher Caldwell, The Age of Entitlement: America Since the Sixties, Simon & Schuster: 2020]
“Only Begotten” v. “One and only” or “Only Son:” Why the difference matters
Charles Lee Irons: Let’s Go Back to ‘Only Begotten’
Martin Scorsese’s three-and-half-hour epic on the disappearance of Jimmy Hoffa
- NETFLIX: The Irishman
- THE GUARDIAN: The Irishman: the murder, the women, the ending – discuss with spoilers
- FREEP: ‘More to come’ on Hoffa disappearance, US attorney says