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
Movement for Black Lives Panel Discussion featuring Angela Davis
Are Prisons Obsolete? by Angela Davis
Books referenced in this sermon (or other material related to the subject matter)
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!)
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-led, Baltimore-based Organizations