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The relationship between secularism, democracy, religion, and gender equality has been a complex one across Western democracies and still remains contested. When we turn to Muslim countries, the situation is even more multifaceted. In the views of many western commentators, the question of Women Rights is the litmus test for Muslim societies in the age…
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James Baldwin’s landmark essay “Negroes Are Anti-Semitic Because They’re Anti-White” is alternatively nuanced and strident, exacting and scattershot, hopeful and fatalistic. It’s fairly prophetic too. As we mark the 55th anniversary of its publication let us acknowledge that, in spite of all the outrage (and confusion) the piece created, it was prescient in many ways.…
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Salon spoke to Terrence L. Johnson and Jacques Berlinerblau about race, “Maus” and where we should go from here
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The “Grand Alliance” of Jews and African Americans was more pragmatic than idealistic. Still: It shaped history
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Georgia’s newly-elected senators could revive the historic partnership that battled white supremacy in the ’60s
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[Stokely Carmichael] then silenced the enthusiastic supporters with four chilling words: “We want black power!” The words were arresting. nearly as suffocating as the of being beaten by police officers and bitten by their dogs. Carmichael shouted black power again. Some gasped at the phrase, and others cheerfully clapped their hands and shouted back “Black…
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The late congressman John Lewis spent most of his political life engaging Black Power’s commitment to economic and political freedom through a political vocabulary that aligned with his deeply held beliefs in nonviolence, human rights activism, and moral faith. The tension between the Black radical left and establishment Black politics dates back to Lewis’s clash…
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As with other aspects of American exceptionalism, religion—American style—has a curious inside/outside dynamic based in assumptions about ourselves and the other which contributes to its stability across many different constituencies, left, right, and center. That dynamic is enabled by a productive hierarchical ambiguity about what counts as “religion” at home and abroad, helping to maintain the…
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Conflicts addressed by religious arbiters The Tanenbaum Center for Interreligious Understanding recognizes individuals for their local efforts for peace in their communities of origin and also facilitates new interventions on the ground by network members. Building Peace in Nigeria: In 2010, five members of the Peacemakers in Action Network traveled to Nigeria to contribute to…
