1. Bishop Wooden’s Viral Clip – A Cultural Commentary

I start with a recent Instagram reel from Bishop Patrick Wooden where he merges faith with politics and authentic blackness.

2. OpenAI, MLK, and the Ethics of Digital Likeness

Next, we turn to the settlement between OpenAI and the Estate of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. After a flood of AI-generated videos depicting Dr. King in disrespectful and even racist scenarios, the estate demanded action. OpenAI responded by pausing all generations of King’s likeness on its Sora platform and granting estates the right to opt out of such uses.

3. Book Spotlight – The Bible Told Them So by J. Russell Hawkins

We close with a book recommendation: The Bible Told Them So: How Southern Evangelicals Fought to Preserve White Supremacy. Hawkins traces how white evangelicals in South Carolina used Scripture to defend segregation during and after the Civil Rights Movement—and how that theology evolved into today’s rhetoric of “colorblindness” and “family values.”

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