april, Author at The Alluvial Collective

Jemar Tisby Learning Session: The American Church’s Complicity in Racism

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Post published:August 18, 2020
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Jemar Tisby, educator, scholar, and author of the New York Times bestselling book The Color of Compromise: The Truth about the American Church’s Complicity in Racism, lead a presentation and…

Unearthing and Confronting Oxford’s Lynching History With Rev. E.W. Higginbottom Sr.

Post author:april
Post published:May 22, 2020
Post category:Community Stories

The weekend I met Rev. E.W. Higginbottom Sr. was the 82nd anniversary of the lynching of his then-29-year-old father Elwood, an Oxford sharecropper, on Sept. 17, 1935.