African American Health Sites

January 1, 2018

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Drag Queen and King Preachers: UCC pastors engage drag performance to center God’s love and belonging May 27, 2025
In the book Drag Queen Preacher, the Rev. Ricardo Tavárez describes preparing to get photographed as his drag persona, Luz De La Rica, after winning a local drag competition. The photographer asks, “What got you into drag?” The question leads… The post Drag Queen and King Preachers: UCC pastors engage drag performance to center God’s […]
Do Unto Others… May 27, 2025
While in Greece for World Council of Churches meetings, I was a part of a group that visited Synyparxis, a refugee program for unaccompanied minors arriving in Greece. These were mostly teenage boys arriving from Egypt, Afghanistan and parts of… The post Do Unto Others… appeared first on United Church of Christ.
Destruction of Indigenous sacred site at Oak Flat halted by recent ruling May 27, 2025
Editor’s note: Near the time of publication of this story, the Supreme Court refused a plea to protect Oak Flat—a Western Apache sacred site—from being turned over to a Chinese-owned mining corporation. In Apache Stronghold v. United States, a collection… The post Destruction of Indigenous sacred site at Oak Flat halted by recent ruling appeared […]

President Trump's war on higher education May 30, 2025
The Trump administration is at war with higher education. They've cut more than a billion dollars in research grants.
What's behind Trump's crackdown on universities — and why it matters May 30, 2025
The Trump administration has thrown so many curveballs at colleges and universities, it can be hard to keep track. But there's logic behind the many efforts, from cutting research grants to detaining international students involved in activism.NPR's Ari Shapiro talks with White House correspondent Danielle Kurtzleben and education correspondent Elissa Nadworny about what's at stake […]
Billowing smoke from Canadian wildfires wafts into the U.S. May 30, 2025
The Manitoba wildfires have forced 17,000 people to flee the province. Plumes of heavy smoke are expected to drift into the United States over Friday and Saturday, affecting millions of Americans.