Stakes Is High
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Stakes Is High

Race, Faith, and Hope for America

  1. 112 pages
  2. English
  3. PDF
  4. Available on iOS & Android
eBook - PDF

Stakes Is High

Race, Faith, and Hope for America

About this book

2018 Religion Communicators Council (RCC ) Wilbur Award, Books-Non-Fiction

"Michael W. Waters...is both blunt and lyrical as he meditates on police violence, racism, hip-hop, and the power of faith." — " New and Noteworthy, " Sojourners, April 2017

What happens when a people can take no more injustice rained down upon their sons and daughters? When each new travesty echoes the cries of ancestors killed for the color of their skin? How do a people rediscover hope? And how do they use that new-found hope as momentum and strength for change?

In his powerful new book Stakes Is High, pastor, activist, and community leader Michael W. Waters blends hip-hop lyricism and social justice leadership, creating an urgent voice demanding that America listen to the suffering if it hopes to redeem its soul. Weaving stories from centuries of persecution against the backdrop of today's urban prophets on the radio and in the streets, Waters speaks on behalf of an awakened generation raging against racism - yet fueled by the promise of a just future. Through the pain and hard but holy work, you will hear the call to join the faithful struggle for racial justice.

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Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Praise for Stakes is High
  3. Copyright
  4. Dedication
  5. Contents
  6. Series Foreword
  7. Foreword
  8. Introduction
  9. On Martyrs and Ancestors
  10. Black Life Is Expendable
  11. The Life and Death of Lennon Lacy: Strange, Still
  12. Kendrick Johnson: Good Kid, Mad System
  13. The Sound of God’s Grief in Charleston
  14. Deep in the Heart of Texas
  15. She Held Us All: A Tribute to Amelia Boynton Robinson (1911-2015)
  16. Of Bees and Butterflies: The Monumental Life of Muhammad Ali
  17. Alton Sterling and the Ritual Performance of Black Death
  18. Terence Crutcher and the Multiform Nature of Black Pain
  19. On Battlegrounds of Justice
  20. Any Negro Will Do
  21. Mortal Men and the City of Baltimore
  22. Swimming Pools
  23. It’s Complicated: On Tubman, Race, and Progress in America
  24. American Justice in Black and White (and Green)
  25. On Struggle and Strongholds
  26. Stakes Is High: Redeeming the Soul of America
  27. American Terrorist
  28. The Empire Strikes Back (or Fear of a Black Planet)
  29. Know Your Place, Boy! (I Mean, President Obama)
  30. Make America Great, Again?
  31. Trump: When Race Is as God
  32. On Hope and Determination
  33. Michael Brown and Our Great Opportunity
  34. Rebirth of a Nation
  35. We Gon’ Be Alright
  36. It All Falls Down
  37. On Hills, Hope, and New Hearts:A View from Dallas
  38. Notes
  39. About the Author
  40. Back Cover