Blacks with Power| Make America Great through Black Power

Blacks with Power| Make America Great through Black Power


Latest Episodes

Gifts Across the Color Line to Make the Word Flesh in our midsts…
December 23, 2020

We didn't plan on doing this episode, so I don't have a plan for a post. Yet, the Spirit spoke and we listened. So, we hope that you will too! It's rare that you'll see a white face on Blacks with Power. But,

Prophets, Politicians…Prophets, Politicians: We Better Know the Difference…
December 16, 2020

Prophets, politicians…prophets, politicians… We better know my difference! Cause like Push T, all I see is victims. https://youtu.be/crCFDQyfORM Victims of politicians pretending to be leaders.

Give Us, Us Grace to Bang our Heads Against the Wall
December 10, 2020

What do we do when people are determined to continue banging their heads against the wall? Like, imagine walking up to someone who is repeatedly head-butting concrete… If you didn’t find him completely strange and just walk away…if you felt compa...

Raphael Warnock, the Georgia Runoff & the Self-Castration of Black Identity
December 03, 2020

We don’t talk about castration enough… But castration is a big part of the Black American identity. It’s why Rev. Jesse Jackson fantasized about cutting off Obama’s nuts. (His words…not mine… #NeverForget) https://www.youtube.com/watch?

Who Gets to Define Black Faith? Barack Obama, Jeremiah Wright & the Pursuit of A Promised Land
November 25, 2020

Why do we tend to take the opinions of non-theologians - over that of theologians, on matters of faith? Recently, there’s been much discussion about the swipes that Barack Obama took at Jeremiah Wright in his new book.

We Gotta Eat & other Heresies Preventing the Mattering of Black Life
November 19, 2020

What do we do about heresy? Heresy?!?!? Who talks about heresy… Two lines in, I’m sure many have already stopped reading. Heresy is such a bad word… We don’t talk about it. So we damn sure don’t know what to do about it.

Black Folk Better Know: White Folks Are Incapable of Healing America
November 12, 2020

The experience of Black people in America is exhibit A in the case of white society’s wickedness… We are often afraid to say that. We are more likely to feign being “happy darkies,” thankful for the genteel goodness of white people.

White folks fail to abandon White Supremacy: Where to Now Black Church?
November 06, 2020

The Black Church got on board with ushering the Black Vote to elect Joe Biden. All over traditional and social media the refrain is that Black voters saved America. But, the deeper truth of that statement is this:

Detoxifying the Black Church | Dr. John Kinney on Making Black Lives Matter
October 29, 2020

It’s like we - Black poeple - are stranded in the wilderness and don’t know it… It’s like we are stranded in the wilderness and have reconciled ourselves to that position… Has the Black Church kept us stranded in the wilderness?

Martin on the Mountain: What did King See?
October 22, 2020

It's a long way to go when you don't know where you're going…You don't know where you're going when you're lost. That’s what the late great Guru of Gang Starr said on Hard to Earn https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rLKmXovPVP8