Religion
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Lessons from the Damned, 2018; or Why We Cannot wait for Tenure to Insist upon our Dignity, Respect, Power, and Value
By. Dr. G & Dr. Kimberly S. Love “The slaves who were ourselves had known terror intimately, confused sunrise with pain, & accepted indifference...
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Book Release: Jezebel Unhinged: Loosing the Black Female Body in Religion and Culture
We are pleased to announce the publication of Tamura Lomax’s new book, Jezebel Unhinged: Loosing the Black Female Body in Religion and Culture (Duke University Press),...
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#eulogizingaretha: For the Colored Girl Who Gave Us a Rainbow When the Black Church Wasn’t Enuff (Benediction)
Sept 15, 1976, Ntozake Shange’s choreopoem, “For Colored Girls Who Have Considered Suicide / When the Rainbow Is Enuf,” premiered on Broadway for the first...
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#eulogizingaretha: What We Need to Say About Mother Franklin
By Andrea Plaid I’m not even sure who Rev. Jasper Williams was talking about in his eulogy. I know it wasn’t Mother Franklin. Not the...
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#eulogizingaretha: The Queen Saved My Soul
By Aesha Adams-Roberts I first heard Aretha Franklin’s voice when I was just seven or eight-years-old, when she sang “Freeway of Love.” I’m almost certain...
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#eulogizingaretha: A Natural Black Woman: Aretha Franklin’s #BlackGirlMagic
By Rashod Grove With the passing of Aretha Louise Franklin, the world bid farewell to the greatest vocalist in the history of recorded American music....
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#eulogizingaretha: R-E-P-E-A-T
By Tiffany James Soul ties Soul touch Soul praise Soul in the midst of us Where we stand. Where we give life Where we give...
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#eulogizingaretha: A Eulogy for and to Aretha Franklin
By Maisha I. K. Handy I wonder if she knew. As she spun “Respect” on repeat time and time again, living vicariously through your voice. Longing...
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#eulogizingaretha: Miss Aretha’s Daughters
By The Reverend Raedorah C. Stewart ©2018 On the occasion of her passing the baton to eternal womanhood Miss. Aretha. Franklin. ……….My southern sensibilities always put...
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#eulogizingaretha: A Eulogy for Aretha Franklin
By Melanie C. Jones I first heard your voice. An indelible voice that needs no introduction. A voice that had the ability to sustain social...
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#eulogizingaretha: The Audacity to Be Free
By Rev. Lacette Cross So if the Son makes you free, you will be free indeed. – John 8:36 (NRSV) “It ain’t necessarily so It...
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#eulogizingaretha: In the Belly of the Feast & the Favor…
By Esther A. Armah I think the Ancestors call her ‘Queen Re Re’. This voice. Unsaid words and sounds that erupted, sometimes emerged, soothing, or...
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#eulogizingaretha: A Final Good Word
By Janell Hobson On the day we gathered for the homegoing of Aretha Franklin, undisputed Queen of Soul, the Buckingham Palace guard paid tribute with...
