17 June 2024 | Black Americans face a 40% higher mortality rate from breast cancer, despite having a lower incidence of the disease than non-Hispanic White Americans. In this article from the Lake Union Herald, Dr. Bryant from UChicago Medicine AdventHealth explains that structural health inequities, later cancer diagnoses, and aggressive molecular subtypes prevalent among […]
By Carl McRoy | 20 December 2023 | Read part 1 here. This piece was also published at ThreeFifthsOnline. James Brown: Santa Claus, Go Straight to the Ghetto The Temptations weren’t “too proud to beg” back in 1966, but by August 1968 James Brown said it loud, “I’m Black and I’m Proud!” This was a […]
by Carl McRoy | 18 December 2023 | I’m not that Christmasy of a person. But sometimes music makes me feel more festive when the songs have a non-traditional approach or an intriguing story behind them. Chuck Berry’s “Run Rudolf Run” has become a Christmas classic now, but it didn’t start that way—and there’s definitely […]
by Carl McRoy | 13 July 2023 “Oklahoma Superintendent Denies Race Caused Tulsa Massacre” – Newsweek, July 7, 2023 “Justice denied: Judge dismisses Tulsa Race Massacre lawsuit” – Black Wall Street Times, July 8, 2023 Tulsa, Oklahoma, had a thriving Black community with Black-owned, Black-operated medical offices, law offices, banks, hotels, grocery stores, and schools. […]
by Nicholas Eše Hemeo’o Arroyave-Howling Crane and Christopher C. Thompson | 13 April 2023 | There was a saying that was common years ago: “White is right. Black, get back. If you’re brown, hang around.” It’s offensive but it speaks to several frameworks related to the world established and curated by white supremacist mores and […]
by Christopher C. Thompson Here’s the disclaimer: I haven’t watched the video. As a matter of fact, I don’t think I have watched one of those videos since 2016 when Philando Castile was murdered in cold blood on camera by a trigger-happy police officer by the name of Jeronimo Yanez. And now we have another […]
30 January 2023 | Dear Aunt Sevvy, Given that our church teaches a short human history timeline, how does it explain such wide differences in racial features? Signed, Racially puzzled Dear Puzzled, You ask a question that is loaded with controversy—and the classic Adventist explanation is a bit embarrassing. It has to do with Noah’s […]
By Zack Payne | 5 June 2020 | Four years ago I wrote an article for another publication entitled, “An Appeal To Fellow White American Adventists.” Across the nation we had just experienced a handful of painful reminders that we cannot ignore racial issues as though they were a thing of the past. Walter Scott, […]
by Loren Seibold | 26 May 2020 | I have an African American friend whom I hold in high esteem—a gentleman of wisdom and uncommon common sense. So when he says something, I listen. And recently he said something that kicked me in the head. It was about Ahmaud Arbery. Ahmaud Back in February Ahmaud […]
by Danielle Barnard, 30 November 2017 In September, America took time to remember the tragedy that happened in New York City in 2001. Anyone who was in grade school or older remembers everything about that day, from where we were when we found out the first tower had been hit, to the […]
I remember seeing this movie when I was a kid called Thunderdome. It’s one of a series of films about a character named Mad Max. Max lives in a dystopian world where survival is the only objective. The Thunderdome is a literal cage dome where futuristic gladiators face off in hand to hand combat to […]
by Christopher C. Thompson, 10 February 2017. But the more they were oppressed, the more they multiplied and spread; so the Egyptians came to dread the Israelites and worked them ruthlessly. Exodus 1:13-14 I have always been enthralled by the story of the exodus. I think my favorite part is when God says to […]