Advent is about God’s embodied solidarity with humanity. In December 2015 Dr. Larycia Hawkins, political science prof at Wheaton College in Illinois placed a hijab on her head, took a picture and posted a message on Facebook in solidarity with Muslim women who were being targeted and forced to take off their hijabs in public […]
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Ruth Anna Buffalo and the Stories the Land Tells
This month on Freedom Road Podcast join host, Lisa Sharon Harper, and special guest State Representative Ruth Anna Buffalo, the first Native American woman Democrat elected to North Dakota’s State Assembly. In honor of Native American History Month, the two share lessons from their recent pilgrimage through the stories of Buffalo’s people–the Mandan, Hidatsa and […]
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2019 marked the 400th year since Africans first stepped foot on North American shores. Antony and Isabela (their given slave names) were brought from Angola aboard a Portuguese slave ship bound for Mexico. The White Lion, an English warship, pirated the Portuguese ship and stole its human cargo. The first “20 and odd” Africans brought […]
On Freedom Road: The Fruits of U.S. Exploitation of Immigrant Labor – Migrant Workers and Detention
In this second episode of the Freedom Road Podcast two-part series on Immigration, Exploitation and Labor in the U.S. join host, Lisa Sharon Harper, and company as they travel from The Alamo to the Borderlands; shining light on America’s labor system–a system perpetually dependent on the no-cost and low-cost labor of black and brown immigrant […]
On Freedom Road: The Roots of U.S. Exploitation of Immigrant Labor – Slavery and Peonage
Over the next two episodes pilgrimage with us on Freedom Road Podcast as we stand on the land where whips cracked backs to bleed more work from black and brown bodies. Stand with us in a literal valley of dry bones—a mass grave filled with the bodies of men and boys swept up in the […]
