Welcome to Straightwide American Jesus. My name is Brad Amishi, Associate Professor

Religious Studies Skidmore College and I'm here today with my co-host.

I'm Dan Miller, Associate Professor

of Religion and Social Thought at Landmark College.

Well, it is good to see you, Dan.

Again, it feels like it's been a year since we lasted a weekly roundup, but it's been a week.

And a lot of things have happened. There's no way we can sort of,

I'm sure that there will be historians in 10 years who specialize in June of 2020.

That would just be their whole scholarly career, just June 2020.

But I want to start today just by highlighting the work of some black women who are historians and scholars who are really leading the way and as we've said on the show I think you know if

you are a white person listening to this if you're a non black person listening to this

if you are somebody who is just trying to sort of learn and grow. I think that Dan and I agree that that is not the

responsibility of your black friends or colleagues or acquaintances and it really is on us as non-black people.

I'm going to just put myself in there to do the work of being anti-racist.

Last week we talked Dan about some Twitter threads

from our friends Blake Chastane

and Professor Megan Goodwin who both said

that being an anti-racist is a lifelong endeavor.

It is one you continually train for.

It is not something you accomplish.

And so anyway, I wanted to start today. There's a great

piece at the Atlantic by Kisha N Blaine who is a history professor at the

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