Sightings Articles

Now Let Us Sing! Juneteenth 2021
The deep roots connecting Jewish and Black prophetic witness
June 17, 2021

Imagining History without Heroes and Villains
What the Hebrew Bible can teach Americans about reckoning with the fallenness of our nation's founders
September 14, 2020

King Cotton
The United Methodist Church's roots witness against Cotton's attack on critical history
September 3, 2020

An Event to Celebrate
September 24, 2016, marked one of the most significant moments in America’s history when its first African American president, Barack Obama, opened the National Museum of African American History and Culture on the nation’s mall in Washington, D.C. T...
November 10, 2016

Georgetown
In a comment to one of the many blog posts about a controversy concerning Georgetown University’s past with slavery, we read: “I did not enslave anyone. I did not profit from slavery.” Such an abrupt dismissal of the moral issues is alienating, but t...