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Pleading for Mercy & Protection
Almighty! and all wise God our heavenly Father!
tis once more and again that a few of your beloved children are
gathered together to call upon your holy name. We bow at your
foots-tool, master, to thank you for our spared lives. We thank
you that we were able to get up this morning clothed in
our right mind. For Master, since we met here, many have been
snatched out of the land of the living and hurled into eternity.
But through your goodness and mercy we have been spared to
assemble ourselves here once more to call upon a captain who has
never lost a battle. O throw your round us your strong arms of
protection. Bind us together in love and union. Build us up
where we are torn down and strengthen us where we are weak. O
Lord! O Lord take the lead of our minds, place them on heaven
and heavenly divine things. O God, our captain and king! Search
our hearts and if you find anything there contrary to your
divine will just move it from us, Master, as far as the east is
from the west.
Now Lord, you know our hearts, you know our heart's desire.
You know our down-setting and you know our up-rising. Lord, you
know all about us because you made us. Lord! Lord! One more kind
favor—I ask you to remember the man that is to stand in the
gateway and proclaim your Holy Word. O stand by him. Strengthen
him where he is weak and build him up where he is torn
down. O let him down into the deep treasures of your Word.
And now, O Lord, when this humble servant is done down here
in this low land of sorrow—done sitting down and getting up—done being called everything but a child of God—O when I
am done, done, done, and this old world can afford me a
home no longer, right soon in the morning, Lord, right soon in
the morning—meet me down at the river of Jordan—bid the
waters to be still—tuck my little soul away in the snow-white
chariot and bear it away over yonder in the third heaven where
every day will be a Sunday and my sorrows of this old
world will have an end. This is my prayer for Christ my
redeemer's sake. Let all say amen and thank God.
Source: Harold A. Carter's Prayer Tradition of
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* * * Harold A. Carter grew up in the 1940s,
in Selma, Alabama. He was the third of five children (two
boys and three girls) in the home of Reverend Nathan Mitchell
Carter, Sr. and Lillie Belle Carter. His father--Nathan
Carter--was a Baptist pastor and preacher, and also professor at
Selma University, a Baptist School founded in 1878 by Baptists
of Alabama. His father taught Bible and theology.
In the late 1950s, Harold Carter first earned a Bachelor of
Divinity degree from Crozer Theological Seminary (Chester, PA).
At some point between the mid 1950s and 1968, Harold Carter was
for a full year a pastoral assistant to Martin Luther King. In
1987 (?), Carter earned a Ph.D. in Theology at St. Mary's
Seminary and a Doctor of Ministry in the same month from Colgate
Rochester Divinity School. He was (1959-1964) a pastor at Court
Street Baptist (Lynchburg, VA) and has been pastor since 1964 of
New Shiloh Baptist (Baltimore, MD).
. Dr. Carter led New Shiloh into a church and
Family Life Center, Sunday, May 27, 1990. Over the years of his
ministry, he has led citywide crusades in evangelistic ministry
across America and in many countries abroad. Dr. Carter's first
book "The Prayer Tradition of Black People" continues
to be a standard work in the Black Spiritual Anthology. A more
recent work, "Building Disciples in the Local Church,"
is being used by churches near and far, to build revival fires
in the local church. His Book, "America, Where Are You
Going?" has also proven to be a powerful call for America
to examine where she is going in light of the Christian faith,
so often compromised and even ignored in our present day world.
Harold Carter thinks of himself as a minister,
"Determined to Live With Christ." Dr. Carter is
married to Dr. Weptanomah W. Carter, noted speaker, author and
founder of several ministries in New Shiloh Baptist Church.
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The New Jim Crow
Mass Incarceration in the Age of
Colorblindness
By Michele Alexander
Contrary to the
rosy picture of race embodied in Barack
Obama's political success and Oprah
Winfrey's financial success, legal
scholar Alexander argues vigorously and
persuasively that [w]e have not ended
racial caste in America; we have merely
redesigned it. Jim Crow and legal racial
segregation has been replaced by mass
incarceration as a system of social
control (More African Americans are
under correctional control today... than
were enslaved in 1850). Alexander
reviews American racial history from the
colonies to the Clinton administration,
delineating its transformation into the
war on drugs. She offers an acute
analysis of the effect of this mass
incarceration upon former inmates who
will be discriminated against, legally,
for the rest of their lives, denied
employment, housing, education, and
public benefits. Most provocatively, she
reveals how both the move toward
colorblindness and affirmative action
may blur our vision of injustice: most
Americans know and don't know the truth
about mass incarceration—but her
carefully researched, deeply engaging,
and thoroughly readable book should
change that.—Publishers
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Blacks in Hispanic Literature: Critical Essays
Edited by
Miriam DeCosta-Willis
Blacks in Hispanic Literature is a
collection of fourteen essays by scholars and
creative writers from Africa and the Americas.
Called one of two significant critical works on
Afro-Hispanic literature to appear in the late
1970s, it includes the pioneering studies of
Carter G. Woodson and
Valaurez B. Spratlin, published in the 1930s, as
well as the essays of scholars whose interpretations
were shaped by the Black aesthetic. The early
essays, primarily of the Black-as-subject in Spanish
medieval and Golden Age literature, provide an
historical context for understanding 20th-century
creative works by African-descended, Hispanophone
writers, such as Cuban
Nicolás Guillén and Ecuadorean poet, novelist,
and scholar
Adalberto Ortiz, whose essay analyzes the
significance of Negritude in Latin America. This
collaborative text set the tone for later
conferences in which writers and scholars worked
together to promote, disseminate, and critique the
literature of Spanish-speaking people of African
descent. . . .
Cited by a
literary critic in 2004 as "the seminal study in the
field of Afro-Hispanic Literature . . . on which
most scholars in the field 'cut their teeth'."
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The World and Africa, 1965
By W. E. B. Du Bois
W. E. B. Du Bois’
Arraignment and Indictment of White Civilization
(Fletcher)
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