Tag: lynching

• Duke: Cutting Down Nets and Nooses

  

  “Maybe now they’ll stop hanging nooses off trees on campus…” I read the words just moments after I had added my own throwback photo to the avalanche flooding newsfeeds with Duke alumni’s exuberance over their NCAA win. In the midst of celebrating Coach K cutting down the net as a symbol of Duke basketball’s dominance, the irony was not…

  Hannah Adair Bonner

  April 7, 2015

  Justice, Listening

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• A Time to Listen, A Time to Speak

  

  “I cannot wait until I am in a different appointment, so that I can preach the way that you do.” I cocked my head to the side, a little puzzled. I had just finished a sermon on racism, privilege, solidarity and what it means to be the family of God as the guest preacher at…

  Hannah Adair Bonner

  January 12, 2015

  Justice, Listening

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