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As we think about our veterans, here's a look at why the DEI purge in the military ignores lessons from America's biggest military disasters—and will hurt White men more than people realize: www.cnn.com/2025/05/26/u...
The Pentagon’s DEI purge ignores lessons from America’s biggest military disasters | CNN
The Trump administration is trying to purge DEI efforts from the US military. But many of America’s biggest military blunders occurred because there wasn’t enough diversity in the armed forces.
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May 26, 2025 at 12:25 PM
As we think about our veterans, here's a look at why the DEI purge in the military ignores lessons from America's biggest military disasters—and will hurt White men more than people realize: www.cnn.com/2025/05/26/u...
www.cnn.com/2025/04/20/u... "The Easter miracle, though, cannot be explained exclusively through a spiritual lens. It’s also a story of power — about people who seemed to have none but rose up to defeat an empire.
Before Easter became a holy day, it was the beginning of the Resistance | CNN
Belief in the resurrection of Jesus is the foundation of the Christian faith. But the miracle of Easter didn’t end there. What happened afterward was just as improbable – and offers a blueprint for co...
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April 20, 2025 at 10:34 AM
www.cnn.com/2025/04/20/u... "The Easter miracle, though, cannot be explained exclusively through a spiritual lens. It’s also a story of power — about people who seemed to have none but rose up to defeat an empire.
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I spoke with @jkblake.bsky.social about my upcoming biography of Malcolm X—MALCOLM LIVES!—and the enduring power of his voice during this time of the progression of racism.
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Ibram X. Kendi on DEI, America’s ‘progression of racism’ and his new book on Malcolm X | CNN
Ibram X. Kendi, the antiracist scholar, talks to CNN about his upcoming new book on Malcolm X, the recent “racist progress” in America and what today’s demoralized antiracists can learn from Malcolm’s...
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March 3, 2025 at 8:34 PM
I spoke with @jkblake.bsky.social about my upcoming biography of Malcolm X—MALCOLM LIVES!—and the enduring power of his voice during this time of the progression of racism.
www.cnn.com/2025/03/01/u...
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Given the assault on DEI, the reversal of the racial reckoning and his new book on Malcolm X, author Ibram Kendi had plenty to say when I recently caught up with him for an interview: www.cnn.com/2025/03/01/u...
Ibram X. Kendi on DEI, America’s ‘progression of racism’ and his new book on Malcolm X | CNN
Ibram X. Kendi, the antiracist scholar, talks to CNN about his upcoming new book on Malcolm X, the recent “racist progress” in America and what today’s demoralized antiracists can learn from Malcolm’s...
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March 1, 2025 at 1:16 PM
Given the assault on DEI, the reversal of the racial reckoning and his new book on Malcolm X, author Ibram Kendi had plenty to say when I recently caught up with him for an interview: www.cnn.com/2025/03/01/u...
How do you find hope and the energy to go forward when it seems like all you believe in is a mirage, and will never come true? I faced this question, and found inspiration in an unlikely source—an old photograph of my mom that faced something worse.
February 4, 2025 at 3:10 PM
How do you find hope and the energy to go forward when it seems like all you believe in is a mirage, and will never come true? I faced this question, and found inspiration in an unlikely source—an old photograph of my mom that faced something worse.
Tomorrow, the observance of MLK's national holiday falls on the same day as President Trump's second inauguration-MLK meets MAGA on the same day. What lesson can we draw from that timing? I asked those who study and knew King. Some progressives may no like their answers: www.cnn.com/2025/01/19/u...
What MLK knew that today’s progressives keep forgetting | CNN
Sixty years ago, Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.’s social justice movement was facing overwhelming obstacles, including a White backlash to Black progress. But King did something that eludes many of today’...
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January 19, 2025 at 12:36 PM
Tomorrow, the observance of MLK's national holiday falls on the same day as President Trump's second inauguration-MLK meets MAGA on the same day. What lesson can we draw from that timing? I asked those who study and knew King. Some progressives may no like their answers: www.cnn.com/2025/01/19/u...
Please stop by if you can next Thursday night at Mercer University's campus in Macon, GA. den.mercer.edu/award-winnin...
Award-winning author, CNN senior writer John Blake to deliver annual Byington Lecture
MACON — Mercer University’s Spencer B. King Jr. Center for Southern Studies will welcome John Blake, senior writer at CNN.com, for the seventh Laurie Byington Lecture on the Contemporary South on…
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January 17, 2025 at 1:29 PM
Please stop by if you can next Thursday night at Mercer University's campus in Macon, GA. den.mercer.edu/award-winnin...
What is it like to live in a country where White Christian nationalist have unprecedented access to political power? Americans could find out the next four years. I asked this question of Kristin Du Mez, author of "Jesus and John Wayne." Her answer to that questions are chilling
January 12, 2025 at 12:21 PM
What is it like to live in a country where White Christian nationalist have unprecedented access to political power? Americans could find out the next four years. I asked this question of Kristin Du Mez, author of "Jesus and John Wayne." Her answer to that questions are chilling
An article I recently wrote about Carter just before his passing. It looks at the specific brand of evangelical Christianity he subscribed to, and how it's been overtaken by something else. www.cnn.com/2023/03/05/u...
Jimmy Carter embodies the ‘road not taken’ by many White evangelical Christians | CNN
As people pay homage to former President Jimmy Carter, many overlook a primary source of inspiration for his politics and faith: his distinctive brand of White evangelical Christianity, which remains ...
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December 30, 2024 at 2:12 PM
An article I recently wrote about Carter just before his passing. It looks at the specific brand of evangelical Christianity he subscribed to, and how it's been overtaken by something else. www.cnn.com/2023/03/05/u...
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“We can disagree and still love each other unless your disagreement is rooted in my oppression and denial of my humanity and right to exist”
James Baldwin
James Baldwin
December 20, 2024 at 12:11 PM
“We can disagree and still love each other unless your disagreement is rooted in my oppression and denial of my humanity and right to exist”
James Baldwin
James Baldwin
