Regardless of who won last week’s presidential election, Reverends Irene Monroe and Emmett G. Price want you to know that America’s issues with race are still as urgent as they’ve ever been.
The two returned to Boston Public Radio on Monday and reflected on the road ahead for racial equity in America, in a conversation sparked by the latest episode of their All Rev’d Up podcast.
That episode, titled “Where Do We Go From Here, Redux”, centers on a 1967 speech from the late Reverend Martin Luther King, Jr., where King grappled with defining a path forward for Black America in the wake of the Civil Rights Movement.
“We recorded this before the election was solved ... or re-solved,” Price said. “I like what we’re seeing in this moment, but we still need to get together and figure out, Where do we go from here?”
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Monroe said the current litany of issues facing Black Americans — including homelessness, mass incarcertaion and unemployment — will continue to plague the nation under President-elect Joe Biden, and until the country addresses its "persistent racism."
Emmett G. Price III is a Professor and Executive Director of the Institute for the Study of the Black Christian Experience at Gordon-Conwell Theological Seminary. Irene Monroe is a syndicated religion columnist, the Boston voice for Detour’s African American Heritage Trail, and a visiting researcher in the Religion and Conflict Transformation Program at Boston University School of Theology. Together, they host the All Rev'd Up podcast.
