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Father of Black Liberation Theology, the Rev. Dr. James Cone, Dies at 79
It seems appropriate that the Rev. Dr. James Hal Cone—radical Christian, father of black liberation theology, soldier against white supremacy, renowned author and longtime academic around the American phenomenon of lynching—would die the same week that the national lynching memorial opened in Montgomery, Ala. It is a divine nod to a job well done. Cone,…