Modern-day delta storyteller & author of “I See the Promised Land,” Arthur Flowers performs sections from the book & and describes how his collaboration with a Patua scroll-painter from Bengal came about.
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Black History Meditation: Remembering The Presence Of Our Ancestors
“Our nation has need of tears, tears for all those lynched, maimed, whipped, shamed, and debased by our history of race hatred. Our country has need of tears for those who suffered and for those at whose hands they suffered. For they, by denying the humanity of others, denied their own. We remain connected to the past by memory, and the nation, like individuals, must come to terms with the past. There is a way out of the evasion and willed amnesia of our racial trauma — listening to the voices of our ancestors, expressed in story, song, sermon, and texts, offers one such way as a telling of memories, an expression of mourning, and, by means of listening and mourning, to begin the process of healing the wounds, personal and social, inflicted by racism. ”
Albert Raboteau
Author, ‘Slave Religion: The ‘Invisible Institution’ in the Antebellum South’
The Rise of the Multiracial Church | TheLoop21.com
In the not-so distant past, you could count more African Americans at a Republican Party fundraiser than at a non-black church. Martin Luther King Jr. famously remarked in 1963 how the nation split along racial lines on the Sabbath. “11 o’clock Sunday morning is the most segregated hour of the week,” he said. “And the Sunday school is still the most segregated school.” But in an age where super-sized churches are edging out community churches, that trend is reversing. In recent years, large American churches have gradually grown more diverse.