Rev. Osagyefo Uhuru Sekou
ContributorRev. Osagyefo Uhuru Sekou is an emerging leader in the new Civil Rights Movement and an acclaimed activist, theologian, author, documentary filmmaker, and musician. Sekou was a Visiting Scholar at Stanford University's Martin Luther King Education and Research Institute at the time of Michael Brown Jr.'s killing, and traveled to Ferguson in mid-August 2014 on behalf of the Fellowship of Reconciliation, the country's oldest interfaith peace organization, to organize alongside local and national groups.
Issue 1 - 2008
On the candidacy of Barack Obama and the politics of possibility, evangelical Christians and community, the new atheism, and black suffering in the wake of Hurricane Katrina.
Current Events
January 16, 2017
MLK’s Radical Legacy, From the Poor People’s Campaign to Black Lives Matter
“The only thing I ask is that they not take the freeways. Dr. King would never take a freeway.” So said Kasim Reed, the liberal African American mayor of Atlanta, in response to Black Lives Matter protests in King’s birth city last summer.