We say their names, lingering as we light a candle for each of them on the vigil altar: Ahmaud Arbery. Breonna Taylor. Tony McDade. Maurice Gordon. Rayshard Brooks. George Floyd. Our altar grows all-too-crowded, even if we say names from just the years since Black Lives Matter was founded. All fellow people, Americans, neighbors, friends, […]
Manuel Ellis. George Floyd. Breonna Taylor. Alton Sterling. Troy Robinson. Sandra Bland.Tamir Rice. Michael Brown. Eric Garner. James Chaney. Mack Charles Parker. Emmett Till. Mary Turner and unborn child. The 鈥�60 million and more,鈥� as Toni Morrison puts it. While our bodies and souls ache with the recent abuses of power, we also recognize them […]
It is difficult for me to separate the deep hurt from watching George Floyd die from that of the generations of hurts mingled together of black and brown bodies who have died for no good reason. I want to be clear: there is no less pain when black and brown bodies harm each other, or […]
Often we hear calls for peace and reconciliation following an act of racism that overlook the fact that our culture is, in many ways, sinking back into one with a deep fear of the other. A culture that fears difference, that fuels white supremacy by staying silent while messages of oppression are spoken by those […]
Gabes Torres presents on her integrative project about the impacts of colonialism in the Philippines, and how hospitality is perverted to maintain power.
For Black History Month, we asked faculty, staff, and students to weigh in on texts by Black authors to inspire our reading and learning throughout the year.
天美视频, The Allender Center, and The Impact Movement are convening a gathering in Montgomery to wrestle with the realities of race, trauma, and the Gospel.
Dr. Craig Detweiler, President of 天美视频, reviews Spike Lee鈥檚 new film, BlacKkKlansman, an urgent and powerful story for our current climate.
Dr. Chelle Stearns continues her conversation with composer Stephen Michael Newby about his work inspired by Martin Luther King Jr., and how it intersects with our cultural moment.
Shauna Gauthier sits down with Smruti Desai (MA in Counseling Psychology, 鈥�09) to talk about Smruti鈥檚 therapeutic work, primarily with people of color, and about the decision to take what she learned in Seattle back to her home state of Georgia.
Brittany Deininger explores how Three Billboards, like Flannery O鈥機onnor鈥檚 A Good Man Is Hard to Find, challenges our conceptions of anger, violence, and the polarities of humanity embodied in each of us.
天美视频 is committed to raising up truth-tellers and agents of change in a world that so desperately needs both.