Black Liberation Theology

“Whiteness Is a Religion”: Dr. J. Kameron Carter on White Christianity, Empire, and the Anarchy of Black Religion

Is white Christianity the Antichrist? Dr. J. Kameron Carter traces how the church helped invent race and why Black religion is anarchic, on Liberation Now.

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Racial Capitalism Broke My Family. The Church Basement Put It Back Together.

Black people are growing lonelier as we age, and capitalism is the reason. In the first essay of the Defender’s Black Liberation Theology series, Minister Andrew Hairston, Baptist minister and co-chair of Austin DSA, writes about the family he lost in court, the Black socialist ministers who came before him, and why grief belongs in the pews and the organizing meeting rather than alone at home.

A Black Church Saved the Only Black Student Government in America. Mizzou Tried to Destroy It.

As a generation walks away from a Black church it found too silent, Alfred Street Baptist Church answered Mizzou's attack on the Legion of Black Collegians, and lit the path forward for every congregation watching.

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