Episode 5: Paul Laurence Dunbar’s “An Antebellum Sermon”

Episode 5 Notes

Balko, Radley. “The Trump administration gave up on federal oversight of police agencies--just as it was starting to work.” The Washington Post. January 28, 2019.  

The Black Church: This Is Our Story, This Is Our Song. Public Broadcasting Network. Henry Louis Gates, Jr. 

Cone, James. The Cross and the Lynching Tree. Orbis, 2013.

Finkelstein, Israel, and Neil Asher Silberman. The Bible Unearthed: Archaeology’s New Vision of Ancient Israel and the Origin of Its Sacred Texts. Simon and Schuster, 2001.

“Hate Crime Statistics.” United States Department of Justice. Website: https://www.justice.gov/hatecrimes/hate-crime-statistics

Jennings, Willie. The Christian Imagination: Theology and the Origins of Race. Yale University Press, 2011. 

Merritt, Jonathan. Interview in Postcards from Babylon.

Sidamed, Mazin. “Trump’s election led to ‘barrage of hate,’ report finds.” The Guardian. Tues 29 November 2016.

Schmidt, Thomas. Approaching the Bible as Literature. Cascade Books, 2016.

Shelby County vs. Holder. Brennan Center for Justice website. https://www.brennancenter.org/our-work/court-cases/shelby-county-v-holder

Walker-Barnes, Chanequa. I Bring the Voices of My People: A Womanist Vision for Racial Reconciliation. Eerdmans Publishing, 2019. 

Zahnd, Brian. Postcards from Babylon. Interview with Jonathan Merritt. Global Story Films, 2020.