Posts Tagged ‘Rev. Jeremiah Wright’
Nikki Ayanna Stewart: Obama, Wright, and How the Post-Civil Rights Generation Will Rise to Power
This sister offers a personal analysis of the Wright “controversy” and rightly asks us where do we go from here. Seems to me the whole issue points the way for us and further defines the reality that as always, regardless of who is President, we got work to do. [Read More]
“Different, not deficient”
This is an edited transcript of a speech given by Rev Jeremiah Wright at an event for the National Association for the Advancement of Coloured People in Detroit from Guardian Unlimited UK. I come from a religious tradition that did not hold slaves, but preached against [Read More]
Jeremiah Wright At National Press Club: Watch Video
Watch the video here. read more | digg story [Read More]
Clarence B. Jones: America May Owe Reverend Wright a Debt of Gratitude
In 1962, in connection with the 100th anniversary of the Emancipation Proclamation, the celebrated black writer, James Baldwin wrote a dedicatory letter to his nephew on how to survive and deal with living with white racism in America. It was published as an Essay in New [Read More]
Obama’s ex-pastor confronts media in Washington
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – Barack Obama’s former pastor, the Rev. Jeremiah Wright, blasted news media he said had sensationalized his remarks in an often confrontational appearance at a reporters’ club on Monday. read more [Read More]
