Sermon: Movement Beyond The Moment

On Sunday, June 7, 2020, Rev. Dr. Heber Brown, III, pastor of Pleasant Hope Baptists Church, preached a sermon entitled, "Movement Beyond The Moment." This sermon attempts to invite listeners to consider ways to understand both the gravity of this moment and the opportunity to extend its power beyond the present.

Below you will find links that relate to what Pastor Brown references in this sermon along with supplemental material.

Angela Davis

• Who Is Angela Davis? (Blacksonian)

• Movement for Black Lives Panel Discussion featuring Angela Davis

• Black Journal Interview with Angela Davis (1972)

• The Fallacy of Prison Reform

• Are Prisons Obsolete? by Angela Davis

Books referenced in this sermon (or other material related to the subject matter)

• A Great & Mighty Walk by John Henrik Clarke

• Lies My Teacher Told Me by James Loewen

• A People's History of the United States by Howard Zinn

• Collective Courage: A History of African American Cooperative Thought and Practice by Jessica Gordon Nembhard

• Ella Baker and the Black Freedom Movement by Barbara Ransby

• Parable of the Sower by Octavia Butler

• Message To The Grassroots by Malcolm X

• I Know Why The Caged Bird Sings by Maya Angelou

• How We Get Free: Black Feminism and the Combahee River Collective by Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor

• A Black Women's History Of The United States by Daima Ramey Berry and Kali Nicole Gross

• The Fire Next Time by James Baldwin

Poetry referenced in this sermon

• If We Must Die by Claude McKay

Music Playlist (Notice: coarse language in some selections...but less profane than White Supremacy!)

• The Message by Grandmaster Flash & The Furious Five

• Give The People What They Want by The O'Jays (and check out this remake of the song by EPMD)

• Ella's Song by Sweet Honey In The Rock

• U.N.I.T.Y. by Queen Latifah

• Fight The Power by Public Enemy

• I Get Out by Ms. Lauryn Hill

• Alright by Kendrick Lamar

• The Hate That Hate Produced and The Final Solution; Slavery's Back in Effect by Sista Souljah

Historic Organizations

• Black Panther Party

• Combahee River Collective

• Deacons For Defense & Justice

• Brotherhood Sleeping Car Porters

• Mississippi Freedom Democratic Party

• Cambridge Nonviolent Action Committee

• Universal Negro Improvement Association

Black-led, Baltimore-based Organizations

• CLLCTIVLY (database of Black-led orgs)

• Leaders of a Beautiful Struggle

• The Baltimore Algebra Project

• Fight Blight Bmore

• Baltimore Ceasefire

• Out For Justice

• Orita's Cross Freedom School

• The Black Church Food Security Network