As I watch conservative state legislatures across the country trip over themselves to disassemble Black power at the ballot box, I’m reminded of the Scramble for Africa in the late 19th century.  At the Berlin Conference of 1884-1885, European colonial powers divided up the African continent for the extraction of resources, the economic and religious...

Over the last three months I’ve made tremendous progress toward earning my PhD at the University of Virginia.  My dissertation project has been approved, and I am now officially writing.  My goal is to finish in May of 2027.  Apparently, the number “7” is my thing…Princeton ’87, Pacific School of Religion ’17, UVA ‘27kind of...