The Breathing Room Podcast
Hi everybody and welcome to The Breathing Room. This is a space where people of color and faith can come together to have our lived experiences acknowledged, witness each other's journeys, and take a collective deep breath. Join Kevin Holland and others each week as we explore what being a person of color in a multi-cultural American Christian church has been and is like. These conversations will touch on the spiritual, relational, and socio-political realities that influence us and our faith communities. The goal of this podcast is that fewer of us will feel alone and unseen and that more of our stories will be understood, valued, and championed. This conversation might also help us move from awareness to action in promoting justice as Jesus and the prophets of old did. Learn to do good. Seek justice. Help the oppressed. Defend the cause of orphans. Fight for the rights of widows. Isaiah 1:17 (NLT)
The Breathing Room Podcast
The Tulsa Race Massacre & What It Teaches Us About Our Racial Reckoning Today
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Kevin Holland
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Season 1
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Episode 5
100 years ago this past Monday and Wednesday, a white mob massacred hundreds of black grandfathers, grandmothers, fathers, mothers, sons, daughters, babies, aunts, uncles, nephews, nieces, and cousins in Tulsa Oklahoma. This act of white supremacist domestic terrorism was an expression of the racial hatred and sadism that has been in the DNA of the USA from its inception. 100 years later in the age of #BlackLivesMatter, there is a through line from then to now that we would do well to note. In this episode, we’ll learn about the stories of some who were murdered and some who survived the Tulsa Race Massacre of 1921.