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Alton B. Pollard, III

Alton B. Pollard, III is Director, Program of Black Church Studies and Associate Professor of Religion and Culture at Candler School of Theology, Emory University. He can for reached at [email protected].

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Commentary

Wade in the Water: Reflections on Race, Class and Katrina

By Alton B. Pollard, III

More than forty years have passed since James Baldwin first tried to reason with white people in the land of his birth to learn to “put yourself in the skin of a black person” (no less a poor person, gay person or any one of the multitudes of the nation’s disinherited). The words are taken…

More than forty years have passed since James Baldwin first tried to reason with white people in the land of his birth to learn to “put…

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