{"id":45073,"date":"2020-02-26T09:51:34","date_gmt":"2020-02-26T14:51:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/emu.edu\/now\/news\/?p=45073"},"modified":"2020-03-01T11:03:43","modified_gmt":"2020-03-01T16:03:43","slug":"former-naacp-president-preaches-black-history-past-and-present-is-gods-movement-among-us-and-touches-us-all","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/emu.edu\/now\/news\/2020\/former-naacp-president-preaches-black-history-past-and-present-is-gods-movement-among-us-and-touches-us-all\/","title":{"rendered":"Former NAACP president preaches Black history, past and present, is God\u2019s movement among us and touches us all"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><aside class=\"highlight highlight-right\"><a href=\"https:\/\/emu.edu\/now\/podcast\/2020\/02\/24\/convocation-cornell-brooks\/\">Listen to the podcast.<\/a><\/aside><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">It took a few years of persistence and many phone calls on the part of 91大神\u2019s Director of Multicultural Services<a href=\"https:\/\/emu.edu\/studentlife\/multicultural\/\"> <\/a><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/emu.edu\/studentlife\/multicultural\/\">Celeste Thomas<\/a><\/strong> to bring <strong>The Rev. Dr.<\/strong> <strong>Cornell William Brooks<\/strong> to campus. The former president and CEO of the NAACP from from 2014-17, he has been a visiting professor at Harvard Divinity School for the last two years and serves this academic year as professor of the practice of public leadership and social justice, and director of The William Monroe Trotter Collaborative for Social Justice at Harvard Kennedy School\u2019s Center for Public Leadership.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">And it was relationship that eventually made all the difference. Brooks, a fourth-generation ordained minister of the African Methodist Episcopal church, has preached locally several times.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1000\" height=\"667\" src=\"https:\/\/emu.edu\/now\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/43\/2020\/02\/20200224-Cornell-William-Brooks-Convocation-001-1000px.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-45076\" srcset=\"https:\/\/emu.edu\/now\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/43\/2020\/02\/20200224-Cornell-William-Brooks-Convocation-001-1000px.jpg 1000w, https:\/\/emu.edu\/now\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/43\/2020\/02\/20200224-Cornell-William-Brooks-Convocation-001-1000px-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/emu.edu\/now\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/43\/2020\/02\/20200224-Cornell-William-Brooks-Convocation-001-1000px-768x512.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1000px) 100vw, 1000px\" \/><figcaption>Earnest Kiah (left) plays the piano with vocalists Ariel Barbosa, Rebecca Yugga, Amanda Jasper, and Kiara Kiah.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cI had met Sister Celeste years ago on one of my visits to Bethel AME here in Harrisonburg and once you meet someone, it\u2019s hard to say no,\u201d he said to Bethel parishioners, including senior pastor <strong>The Rev. Dr. Chinita Richardson<\/strong>, and 91大神 campus community members at a Sunday worship service in Mainstage Theater.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">&#8220;It was quite a blessing to have the former CEO and president of the National NAACP, reverend and civil rights attorney here on campus,&#8221; Thomas said. &#8220;He is the epitome of what it looks like to live into Micah.&nbsp; So, if you are asking what can I do to promote a social justice way of life, he talks the talk and walks the walk. He is genuine in word and deed.&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Brooks spoke twice during his visit to commemorate Black History Month on the theme of Sankofa, a Ghanese metaphor about <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sankofa.org\/mission\">\u201creaching back to knowledge gained in the past and bringing it into the present to make positive progress.\u201d<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cIn his Sunday message, he emphasized that we can\u2019t do social justice well without letting our God lead us,\u201d said <strong>Maya Dula<\/strong>, co-president of 91大神\u2019s Black Student Alliance. \u201cHe reiterated over and over that without prayer, work for racial justice would not be where it is today. We won\u2019t get where we want to get without God at the forefront, and I think he may be right.\u201d&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Brooks took his Sunday text from 2 Kings 4 of the widow and the miraculous supply of oil. \u201cWhat do you do when you\u2019re doing without?\u201d he asked. \u201cI lift up three lessons for spiritual contemplation. Take your problem to the Lord. Take stock, assess what you have. Take to your closet.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">In Brooks\u2019 sermon, the Biblical story reflects the depth and richness of God\u2019s presence in Black history, then and now, and becomes a spiritual guide to lift listeners who are \u201cmorally depressed, empty of hope, aspiration, love, faith for the future.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">In response to the prophet\u2019s question, the widow says at first she has nothing.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cThen She considers what she has. Because she says in answer to the prophet\u2019s question, nothing <em>except<\/em> a little oil. What\u2019s our little oil? Our little oil looks like a little history, a little history. A little oil called Rosa Parks, MLK&#8230;Richard Allen, AME, our history of resistance.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Black History Month \u201cbrings us to the Intersection of history and hope,\u201d he said. \u201cAll of our history bears witness to God\u2019s movement among us.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1000\" height=\"667\" src=\"https:\/\/emu.edu\/now\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/43\/2020\/02\/20200224-Cornell-William-Brooks-Convocation-005-1000px.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-45077\" srcset=\"https:\/\/emu.edu\/now\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/43\/2020\/02\/20200224-Cornell-William-Brooks-Convocation-005-1000px.jpg 1000w, https:\/\/emu.edu\/now\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/43\/2020\/02\/20200224-Cornell-William-Brooks-Convocation-005-1000px-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/emu.edu\/now\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/43\/2020\/02\/20200224-Cornell-William-Brooks-Convocation-005-1000px-768x512.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1000px) 100vw, 1000px\" \/><figcaption>Black Student Alliance Co-President Jakiran Richardson provided the call to worship and litany at the Sunday worship service and Monday Convocation.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Monday\u2019s convocation included readings by members of the Black Student Alliance and music by the Gospel Choir. Brooks\u2019 theme was \u201cHistory and Hope on the Slave (Auction) Block.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The history of Black people in this land, beginning with 16 Africans in 1619 and continuing through the horrors of oppression and suppression, is \u201cthe kind of history that calls into our morality, our sense of civichood as a nation,\u201d he said. \u201cIt calls into question the consistency of the Constitution and the hypocracy of those who say they believe in the Bible \u2026 What do we do with this history?\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Yet this history, whether read in books or heard in stories from relatives or even activism and narratives shared on Instagram, Facebook and Twitter, is \u201ctestimony \u2026 Black history, surviving and thriving in spite of what they came up against. Those are stories you cherish \u2026 Black history is about this moment. It is not only about what is being recorded but about what is made and done.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Through it all is God\u2019s work, he said, and it is the story of all of us.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201c&#8230;if you believe in God, if you believe in Jesus, if you believe God the Father, if you believe in the Holy Spirit, if you believe in Matthew, Mark, Luke and John, then you gotta believe in the history of black people. You\u2019ve got to believe in God\u2019s power and presence and movement in the history of Black people and if you believe in that, you\u2019ve got to claim it, you got to read it, you have to love it.\u201d&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Brooks\u2019 visit was sponsored by 91大神\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/emu.edu\/studentlife\/multicultural\/\">Multicultural Student Services<\/a>, the Black Student Alliance, the Committee on Diversity and Inclusion, and the Bible, Religion and Theology Department. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><a href=\"https:\/\/emu.edu\/studentlife\/multicultural\/black-history-month\">Several other events<\/a>, including the BSA\u2019s annual Town Hall on Race, also commemorated the month.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It took a few years of persistence and many phone calls on the part of 91大神\u2019s Director of Multicultural Services Celeste Thomas to bring The Rev. 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