Clarence Page: What’s so wrong about ‘respectability?’ Let’s start with hair
Tribune Content Agency 2 hrs ago Clarence Page, Tribune Content Agency © TNS Four-year-old Gus Jett Hawkins plays with mother, Ida Nelson, in Chicago on May 21, 2021.
Let’s talk about hair.
Cue the soundtrack to the Broadway musical “Hair” theme song: “Gimme a head with hair/Long, beautiful hay-ahh …!”
Stop the music. I mean real hair!
And respectability. Let’s talk about that too.
The “politics of respectability” have taken a real beating lately, even from people who have benefited from practicing it.
All of these themes came to mind in a bill proposed by freshman state Sen. Mike Simmons a North Side Democrat appointed to the seat earlier this year who, like my own millennial son, has a robust headful of dreadlocks.
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Mitchell Spotlights ‘Extraordinary Ministry of Rocellia Johnson’
By Cora Jackson-Fossett, Religion Editor
Published April 7, 2021
The book cover of “An Untraditional Fire.” (Courtesy photo)
The Los Angeles-area faith community is quite familiar with the legacy of the Rev. Dr. Rocellia Johnson. While he passed away in 2018, he left an indelible mark that many still imitate today.
Johnson not only founded Bethany Baptist Church of West Los Angeles in 1958, but he also established Bethany Christian Bible College (BCBC) in 1978 and served several years as executive director of the National Evangelism Movement (NEM).
Throughout his long ministry, thousands of people accepted Christ as their Savior and an equal number accepted their call to preach the Gospel. Johnson influenced countless lives and now, author Harry Mitchell III is relating the tremendous extent of the evangelist’s reach in a new book, “An Untraditional Fire: The Extraordinary Ministry of Rocellia Johnson.
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Community and camaraderie are big themes in people s memories of growing up in the Black church. Here, a group of people gather at New Galiee Baptist Church in Dallas.
For many people, a childhood spent growing up in the church community taught them leadership skills, and gave them an unwavering faith that has guided them as adults.
For many North Texans, the Black church has been a safe place away from discrimination, a place of learning and a beacon of hope.
KERA is exploring the impact of Black Churches in North Texas and many of you shared your stories.
“The Black church has been an extension of my family s lifeline,” said Dallas resident Deloris King, member of St. Luke Community United Methodist Church.
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In this 2012 file photo, choir members sing during the annual Black History Month Mass at St. Patrick’s Cathedral in New York. The Mass, sponsored by the Archdiocese of New York’s Office of Black Ministry, also was celebrated in observance of the National Day of Prayer for the African American and African Family. (CNS photo/Gregory A. Shemitz)
After growing up Baptist, Nate Tinner-Williams became a Roman Catholic in December 2019. Now, after a move to New Orleans, he is planning to enter into formation with the Josephites, an order of brothers and priests who have ministered specifically to the African-American community since 1893. In the meantime, he has devoted himself to developing Black Catholic Messenger, an online publication he co-founded in October 2020.
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