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A Visit to Galveston, the Birthplace of Juneteenth
Black AF History: The Un-Whitewashed Story of America
White Freedom: The Racial History of an Idea
Neocolonialism: The Remnants of Foreign Exploitation in Africa
— Half a century after Europe liberated its colonies in Africa, a new form of foreign oppression has emerged that threatens the sovereignty of the African nations.
African Environmental Ethics and Sustainable Development
— “In this paper, I argue that African environmental ethics can contribute to sustainable development as well as mitigate the devastating effects of global warming and climate change in Africa. Although Africa bears the least onus of responsibility for global warming and climate change, she suffers the greatest burden of the adverse effects of global climate change and environmental crisis. While industrialized countries, nations which are largely responsible for the greatest amount of greenhouse emissions are laggard and reticent in implementing international agreements aimed at palliating the untoward effects of climate change, there is an urgent need to seek indigenous solutions to environmental crisis in Africa without compromising the much needed development in the continent. African environmental ethics extends the moral community beyond anthropocentric concerns by including non-human animals, plants, the unborn, and the supernatural into the moral universe. I use Kom environmental ethics to show how indigenous African societies employed different values and customs to make their environment physically and spiritually sustainable. There were taboos, values, and norms which prescribed correct behavior towards nature. But as a result of the colonial encounter, Africans were forced to abandon some of these indigenous environmental values and sustainable practices for an anthropocentric approach. With this outlook where humans have moral responsibility only towards humans, development meant the complete disregard for traditional African holistic values and customs. This disregard, in conjunction with weak or absence of institutional framework regarding environmental protection and corruption in the management of natural resources, has led to unsustainable exploitation of the natural environment in Africa.”
The wealth of the west was built on Africa's exploitation
The Exploitation of Africa and African by the Western World Since 1500: A Bird‘s Eye View
The African Court of Justice and Human and Peoples' Rights in Context
— Chapter 21 Illicit Exploitation of Natural Resources
Why the wealth of Africa does not make Africans wealthy
The Looting Machine: Warlords, Oligarchs, Corporations, Smugglers, and the Theft of Africa's Wealth
The Environmental Impacts of Colonialism
— “The politics of the global imperial era are having real-world environmental consequences globally, especially in the former colonies. Indifferent administration by overseas imperial powers transparently sought to enrich their home country with little to no thought about the long term environmental or political consequences for the colony. One of the main objectives of global imperialism, from the first Spanish colonies to the last of the British and Portuguese colonies, was the enhanced profitable extraction of resources. The industrial revolution fueled the need for colonial resource extraction. Industrialization and imperialism formed a positive feedback loop, in which one created a greater need for the other. As the dance between industrialization and imperialism grew faster less care was paid toward environmental concerns. This cycle played out until global power was consolidated by a few global empires on a scale unprecedented in human history, by the early 20th century. Then the massive geo-political traumas of the 21st century caused these global empires to collapse and created many “experienced-distant” countries. These countries were based off arbitrarily drawn zones of administration, causing them to be plagued with internal political and sovereignty issues. These destabilizing forces have left many post-colonial governments unable to properly manage the environmental scars left by global imperialism, and often these scars would be made deeper as a result of the geopolitical chess of the Cold-War and as well as decades following.”
The Environmental Challenges In Sub Saharan Africa
Deforestation in Africa: Causes, Effects, and Solutions
Ecology and Politics: Environmental Stress and Security in Africa
African Orthodoxy
I like your Christ, I do not like your Christians. Your Christians are so unlike your Christ.
— Mahatma Gandhi
The Origin of Orthodoxy in East Africa
Orthodoxy in East Africa had a rather unique origin as it was not the result of [Roman Catholic or Protestant] missionary evangelism, nor was it originally inspired by [Western] European/White introduction....
Orthodoxy was unlike all other denominations. It was never associated with racism, colonialism or religious imperialism. It had not involved itself in universal missionary activity.
Further, in America, the Orthodox were not associated with the establishment and often faced the same discrimination as did the Blacks. Orthodoxy also existed in Egypt, Ethiopia, India and the Middle East and in the eyes of the African Orthodox Church members [in America], Orthodox Christians from these areas were kindred souls.
Orthodoxy in Africa
Christianity in Africa | Orthodoxy
Anthology of African Christianity
The “Black” Orthodoxy: St. Moses the Black and Other Black Saints in Orthodox History
Orthodox Christian Intiative for Africa
Orthodox Africa
Environment and Nature in Africa
— “...exploiting the environment is higher than in any other developing areas of the world.”
Indigenous Peoples in Uganda
Medicinal plant use, conservation, and the associated traditional knowledge in rural communities in Eastern Uganda
What Does the Climate Crisis Mean for Uganda?
— “Why is Africa so vulnerable to climate change?
When it comes to the climate crisis, Africa is at the eye of the storm, with Uganda being in the top 10 countries most vulnerable to climate change. All 10 countries are in Africa.
Africa is vulnerable because it is exposed to damaging climate risks including extreme droughts, flooding and storms. Comparatively to the Global North, there is lower capacity for adaptability, making it further vulnerable to high rates of poverty, financial and technological constraints as a result of reliance on agriculture.”
The Repubic of Uganda - Natural Resources, Environment, Climate Change, Land and Water Management: Programme Performance Report 2021
EAC Natural Resources Management Projects
— Improving Collaborative Conservation and Management of Transboundary Natural Resources in East African Community
The developing oil industry in Uganda
Why Uganda is investing in oil despite pressures to go green
Economic lifeline or climate peril? East African pipeline is a new flashpoint
Partners fighting for rights within natural resource exploration in Uganda
Crude oil exploitation in Uganda and its impacts on children’s rights
The impact of the oil and gas exploitation projects on the environment in western Uganda
Uganda | LandLinks
Permaculture Research Institute of Uganda
Drivers Of Wetland Degradation In Wester Uganda
UNEP-INTERPOL Report The Rise of Environmental Crime
amref health africa
WASH - Water And Sanitation
African Saints
Saints of Africa
African Saints | Desert Fathers Dispatch
How Christianity Came to Africa: Blacks of the Ancient Mediterranean
List of African Saints
St. Mary of Egypt
Mary of Egypt | OrthodoxWiki
St. Moses the Black
Moses the Black | OrthodoxWiki
Afro-American Orthodoxy
To make a change, we reach towards heaven, not the unrighteous wisdom of this world.
— Fr. Moses Berry
American Christianity's White Supremacy Problem
Early on in “Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass,” the first of three autobiographies Douglass wrote over his lifetime, he recounts what happened—-or, perhaps more accurately, what didn’t happen—-after his master, Thomas Auld, became a Christian believer at a Methodist camp meeting. Douglass had harbored the hope that Auld’s conversion, in August, 1832, might lead him to emancipate his slaves, or at least “make him more kind and humane.” Instead, Douglass writes, “If it had any effect on his character, it made him more cruel and hateful in all his ways.” Auld was ostentatious about his piety—praying “morning, noon, and night,” participating in revivals, and opening his home to travelling preachers—but he used his faith as license to inflict pain and suffering upon his slaves....
Douglass believed that “the widest possible difference” existed between the “slaveholding religion of this land” and “the pure, peaceable, and impartial Christianity of Christ....
In December, when Mark Galli, who was then the editor-in-chief of Christianity Today, the flagship publication of evangelicalism, wrote an editorial calling for Trump to be removed from office, he urged Christians to consider how their support of Trump influenced their “witness”—the degree to which their lives point to the example of Jesus Christ. “Consider what an unbelieving world will say if you continue to brush off Mr. Trump’s immoral words and behavior in the cause of political expediency,” he wrote. “If we don’t reverse course now, will anyone take anything we say about justice and righteousness with any seriousness for decades to come?”
Black Eastern Orthodox converts turn African American history into Orthodox history
Why More African Americans Are Drawn to the Orthodox Church
Black Voices in the Orthodox Church
African Americans Must Look to Orthodoxy for Peace in a Violent America
Let My Prayer Arise! Music in the Experience of African American Orthodox Christians | Cappella Romana
Raphael Morgan
Raphael Morgan | Wikipedia
The First Black Orthodox Priest in America
Fr. Moses Berry
Father Moses Berry | Orthodox Christianity
Abbamoses Berry | Facebook
Race and American Orthodoxy: an interview with Archpriest Moses Berry
Fr. Moses Berry: A Conversation on His Life and Journey | YouTube
Theotokos "Unexpected Joy" Orthodox Church
Theotokos "Unexpected Joy" Orthodox Church
Fellowship of St. Moses the Black
Fellowship of St. Moses the Black | OrthodoxWiki
Fellowship of St. Moses the Black
Foundations: 1994-1997 (Unbroken Circle Series)
An Unbroken Circle: Linking Ancient African Christianity to the African-American Experience
Desert Fathers Dispatch | The Journal of the Virginia Chapter of the Fellowship of St. Moses the Black
Ozarks Afro-American Heritage Museum
The Only Museum Dedicated to the History of African Americans in the Missouri Ozarks
Ed Fillmer’s Ozark Life Vault: Father Moses Berry’s mission to remember the past
Mother Katherine Weston
Mother Katherine Weston | OrthodoxWiki
Counseling In Harmony With Faith
Nun Katherine Weston | Facebook
Mother Katherine Weston | YouTube
Traditions of the Healing Church: Exploring the Orthodox Faith
Race, Identity, and Reconciliation: Second Edition
Illumining Shame, Anger, and Forgiveness
Loneliness or Fruitful Longing
Fr. Turbo Qualls
St. Mary of Egypt Orthodox Christian Church | Kansas City MO
Full Impact Faith: An Interview with Fr. Turbo Qualls
Catching Xenophilia: Contagious Hospitality in Orthodox Parishes
Christian Tattoo Artist Turbo Qualls: An Interview for The Two Cities
YouTube
Challenges for Orthodoxy in America, Pt. 1
Challenges for Orthodoxy in America, Pt. 2
Orthodoxy & Racial Reconciliation, Pt. 1
Orthodoxy & Racial Reconciliation, Pt. 2
John R. Gresham, Jr
About the Editor | Desert Fathers Dispatch
The Modern Monastic Order of Saint Simon of Cyrene
To Be Black and Orthodox: Part of My Story
All Saints of West Point | Facebook
"Become All Flame", Lent with African Saints
‘Lent With the African Saints’ Author on Deeper Roots of Christianity for Black Americans
Fr. Paul Abernathy
The Prayer of a Broken Heart: An Orthodox Christian Reflection on African American Spirituality
St. Moses the Black Orthodox Church
St. Moses the Black Orthodox Church | Facebook
'They're growing up at war': Pittsburgh priest shares his mission to help communities impacted by violence
Racial Reconciliation w/ Fr. Paul Abernathy | YouTube
Law Enforcement
Police Brutality Statistics: What the Data Says About Police Violence in America
— “Another challenging characteristic of American policing is the decentralization of agencies....>br>
That fragmentation makes it nearly impossible to mandate consistent standards in police training, data collection, use of force policies, and accountability for officers who repeatedly use excessive force. As a result, police officers in the United States are often poorly trained to practice de-escalation in stressful situations. And when agencies fail to collect or release public records of excessive force and fatal police shootings, that contributes to a culture of unseen and unchecked officer misconduct and vicious cycles of community despair.”
Risk of being killed by police use of force in the United States by age, race–ethnicity, and sex
Is Police Behavior Getting Worse? Data Selection and the Measurement of Policing Harms
— “We find that, while lawsuits and payouts have trended upward over the past decade, insurance claims have declined. We examine multiple potential explanations. We argue that, in our sample, police behavior is not getting worse; rather, societal responses to policing harms are intensifying. Police litigation is not representative of the broader universe of claims, and adjudicated claims differ systematically from settled ones.”
Fatal police shootings of unarmed Black people in US more than 3 times as high as in Whites
The Lancet: More than half of police killings in USA are unreported and Black Americans are most likely to experience fatal police violence
‘It never stops’: killings by US police reach record high in 2022
Report: Black people are still killed by police at a higher rate than other groups