Diana L. Hayes

Book review: Lisa Allen offers a new womanist liturgical theology that addresses the violence done to Black bodies that has resulted in disembodied worship and a disconnect between prophetic witness and lived protest.

Louis Chude-Sokei's memoir gives us insight into and, hopefully, empathy for Africans of whatever nation and African Caribbeans, seeking a place to call home, and struggling to understand the weird world of the United States, where persons of African descent are stereotyped in a way that affects all of us, regardless of country of origin.

Book review: In Surviving the White Gaze, Rebecca Carroll recalls life growing up adopted into a white family. How do you navigate life when the images of Blackness you have are so few, or embittered, confused or nonexistent?

Book Review: Charles M. Blow's thoughtful, challenging book recounts the Great Migration and its impact on the South. He calls for a return of Blacks to the South to reclaim our lost political heritage.

Book review: In Becoming Brave, Brenda Salter McNeil traces the journey of realization that came to her after 30 years of teaching and working in the field of racial justice.

Book review: Author Jennifer Berry Hawes unpeels layers of pain and anger, sorrow and forgiveness, hatred and love to ask questions that do not have easy answers. What sustains ordinary people after an unspeakable tragedy?

Book review: "A former drug dealer, sex worker, homeless queer teen, and felon," Duncan puts the emphasis on dismantling white supremacy in this nation, its schools, pews and liturgies.

Book review: Breaking White Supremacy delves into the lives of black social gospel leaders whose work provided a foundation for the ministry of Martin Luther King.

Book Review: As a womanist, I would gladly claim Pauli Murray as a sister womanist, but I honor her own self-naming as a black feminist who refused to allow others to label her, restrain her or restrict her.