The Commons draws together leading and rising voices of our time to advocate for justice and to examine global spiritual and interreligious currents in both historical and contemporary perspectives. From politics to poetry, protests to pedagogy, pulpits to pews, The Commons is an online-only, monthly magazine where artists, activists, and academics explore the place of religion in public life.
A project that uses documentary photographs by André Daughtry, official photographer for the Poor People’s Campaign, during the “40 Days of Moral Action” that took place in 38 state capitals in the summer of 2018.
Since the appearance of black theology in the late 1960’s, much has been written and said about the political involvement of the black church in black people’s historical struggle for justice in North America.