Dynamic Voices for a diverse church. This is Pass the Mic.

Hi folks, welcome to another episode of footnotesnotes if that's what we're calling it

I'm your host Jomart is be here to bring you the latest news from a black Christian

perspective coming up in this episode I'm going to talk about the Oscars and the movie Green Book.

We'll peer into the political theater that was Michael Cohen's testimony before a congressional committee

and I'll talk about the end of Black History Month and how we continue to celebrate and commemorate Black History throughout the year.

So please keep your arms and legs inside the vehicle at all times and enjoy the ride.

Before we get into this week's news, some announcements and updates.

Number one, some personal news, I successfully defended my prospectus and I am now officially A, B, D. That's right. I am released now into the wilds of research for my PhD. If you're not familiar with the process, which I really wasn't before I started the program,

what happens when you enroll in an academic history, PhD and many other PhD programs you go through

coursework, which typically takes about two years

you're doing seminars you're reading books on books on books and then you're coming to

class with reviews and reflections and then you're discussing those books with your

cohort and your classmates and the professor.

And then after that you take this really nerve-wracking test

that makes you not want to ever take a test ever again in your life and that's called

comprehensive exams, sometimes qualifying exams in other fields, but basically you have to memorize

information about several hundred books and then be able to at

least in history talk about the way historians have talked about a particular issue or historical moment like the civil rights movement or a certain

president or things like that.

So I passed Comps last fall and it was as nerve-wracking as they said but then after that the next step is you

write your perspectives which is essentially your proposal for your

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