The Rev. Jimmie Hawkins outlines his book, ‘Unbroken and Unbowed,’ then entertains questions during an online gathering
As the speaker Wednesday for New York Avenue Presbyterian Church’s McClendon Scholar-in-Residence Program, the Rev. Jimmie Hawkins, who leads the PC(USA)’s Office of Public Witness and is the denomination’s advocacy director, spent the first half-hour talking about his book, “Unbroken and Unbowed: A History of Black Protest in America.” Read previous reports about Hawkins discussing his book, published in February 2022 by Westminster John Knox Press, by going here, here or here.
Once Hawkins had completed his initial comments during Wednesday evening’s event, Don Edwards, the principal and CEO of Justice and Sustainability Associates in Washington, D.C., offered up a response and asked Hawkins a few probing questions.
Edwards told Hawkins he’s to be “applauded for adding to the canon of Black historiography.”
“Black protest is not the entirety of African American history in this country,” Edwards said, “but it gives us a lens through which to look. You have refocused people. Your work contradicts the miseducation of Americans.”
Hawkins said the harsh treatment of NFL quarterback Colin Kaepernick, who famously took a knee during the National Anthem to protest racial injustice and police brutality against African Americans, was the spark that expanded his own work on Black protest from an article to a 345-page book.
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