A More Perfect Union: A New Vision for Building the Beloved Community by Adam Russell Taylor

Adam Russell Taylor, president of Sojourners, reimagines a contemporary version of the Beloved Community that will inspire and unite Americans across generations, geographic and class divides, racial and gender differences, faith traditions, and ideological leanings. More ?

Black Hands White House: Slave Labor and the Making of America by Renee K. Harrison

Black Hands, White House appeals to those interested in exploring how nation-building and selective memory, American patriotism and hypocrisy, racial superiority and mythmaking are embedded in US origins. More ?

United States of Grace United Stated of Grace: A Memoir of Homelessness, Addiction, Incarceration, and Hope by Lenny Duncan

United States of Grace is a love story about America, revealing the joy and resilience of places in this country that many call “the margins” but that Lenny Duncan has called home—from homelessness, to incarceration, to the church pew. More ?

You Mean It or You Don’t: James Baldwin’s Radical Challenge by Jamie McGhee and Adam Hollowell

Welcome to life with James Baldwin. It is raw and challenging, inspired and embodied, passionate and fully awake. Authors Hollowell and McGhee assert that true and lasting change demands a response to Baldwin’s radical challenge for moral commitment. More ?

The Prophetic Lens: The Camera and Black Moral Agency from MLK to Darnella Frazier by Phil Allen Jr.

The Prophetic Lens takes an important look at the use of the video camera as an indispensable tool for the security of Black lives and greater possibility for racial justice. The book highlights both the prophetic potential of the camera and the context of Blackness as a liminal existence amid a context dominated by whiteness. More ?

The Arc of Truth: The Thinking of Martin Luther King Jr. by Lewis V. Baldwin

Martin Luther King Jr. was not only vastly influential as an advocate for and defender of truth; he also did more than anyone in his time to organize truth into a movement. Drawing on King’s published and unpublished sermons, speeches, and writings, The Arc of Truth explores his lifelong pilgrimage in pursuit of truth. More ?

Open Wounds: A Story of Racial Tragedy, Trauma, and Redemption by Phil Allen Jr.

Nathaniel Allen’s 1953 death was recorded as an accidental drowning—a deliberate cover-up of the bullet hole seen by more than one witness. Phil Allen Jr. revisits this harrowing story through interviews, difficult conversations, and deep theological reflection, naming racism for what it is and working to chart a path toward reconciliation. More ?

Black Power and the American Myth: 50th Anniversary Edition by C.T. Vivian

C. T. Vivian asserts that the civil rights movement failed because it was built on certain myths about America—four, to be exact:
1. The myth that Americans will do what is right as soon as they know what is right.
2. The myth that legislation leads to justice.
3. The myth that America is an open society where any minority group can advance.
4. The myth that an ethic of love forms the core of the American conscience.
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