“No matter who wins tomorrow, God is still in control.” The fight for liberation, equity, and justice does not end with this election cycle. Tomorrow’s outcome merely determines HOW the fight continues and just how…
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We get it. You think everything you can’t explain is demonic. But could you believe that in silence?
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I turned 31 on June 1 and found myself single and quite ready to mingle. Eight months after the end of a five-year relationship, I realized I was ready to date and love again. After…
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If you’re serious about getting gun control laws, we’re gonna have to turn to our trusted friend racism. It’s time for a “National Minority & Poor People’s License to Carry and Gun Purchase Day”.
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Fiat Chrysler is being heavily criticized online for its use of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.’s words in its Ram Trucks Super Bowl commercial — and rightfully so. Dr. King’s legacy is not intended to be reduced to caricaturized soundbites for to give us all the good feels. Op-Ed by D. Danyelle Thomas
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Every voter carries an ethic to the ballot box. Some carry theology, fear, rage, strategy, grievance, or moral absolutism. This essay examines what our political choices reveal once consequence becomes material.
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Read More“No matter who wins tomorrow, God is still in control.” The fight for liberation, equity, and justice does not end with this election cycle. Tomorrow’s outcome merely determines HOW the fight continues and just how…
Read MoreRome is falling — still. US Liberals from shore to shore have begun collective panic and mourning as news broke of the death of Ruth Bader Ginsburg, Associate Justice of the SCOTUS. She was its…
Read MoreI honestly could end this post by the headline alone, but that would leave too much room for you to deny that you’re once again projecting your bullshit onto Cardi B. So here we are….
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I’m D. Danyelle Thomas, author of The Day God Saw Me as Black & for more than a decade, I’ve written Black religious thought on faith, power, culture, and interior life — from religious deconstruction and spiritual care to public theology, cultural criticism, and Black public affairs.
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