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Living and Singing Soul with Aretha: Respecting Our Awesome and Soulful Selves
Dr. Maulana KarengaOpinion

Living and Singing Soul with Aretha: Respecting Our Awesome and Soulful Selves

Dr. Maulana KarengaAugust 23, 2018

Whatever others may say in clearly deserved praise and homage to Aretha Franklin, it is vitally important that we, as persons and a people, speak our own special cultural truth about her and make our own unique assessment of her music, life, service and meaning to us. Here I mean not letting others’ descriptions of her and her music serve as an orientation and framework for our own praise and proper due, but rather reaching inside ourselves and understanding and speaking of her in a multiplicity of meaningful and praise-worthy ways drawn and distilled from the depths of our own hearts and our own culture.

Michael Eric Dyson to Preach at Holman UMC
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Michael Eric Dyson to Preach at Holman UMC

Cora Jackson-Fossett, Religion EditorJune 13, 2018

The Rev. Dr. Michael Eric Dyson delivers another hard-hitting message with his new book, “What Truth Sounds Like: Robert F. Kennedy, James Baldwin and Our Unfinished Conversation About Race in America.” His latest work recounts a historic 1963 meeting between then-U.S. Attorney General Kennedy, novelist Baldwin and other Black activists and artists deeply involved in the civil rights movement and shows how issues discussed 55 years ago still remain unresolved. The powerful preacher, scholar, and national political commentator appears in Los Angeles this weekend to expound on the topic of race and hopes to inspire believers and nonbelievers alike to