I was privileged enough to grow up in a church where the multifaceted greatness of Black people in America was celebrated in multiple ways from Sunday School lessons to special programs and events. We do our people, especially our children our disservice if we think that we can Biblically educate people without culturally educating them too. Efforts to remove cultural education from Christian education are spiritually dangerous. This is especially true in an environment in which the education of Black culture and Black history is under attack in schools in colleges across the United States. Our churches, and other institutions that are led by and that serve Black people ought to respond to the call of Nia and rededicate ourselves to telling stories about our legacy. 

The stories of the Bible itself run in and out of Africa. Early Christianity was nurtured and raised on the African continent long before it found a home in Europe. Christianity has nurtured leaders from the most militant to those who have worked hardest for integration, and everywhere in between. Churches ought to find ways to share these stories, even the stories of the people whose tactics might differ from ours. We never know how a more robust knowledge of the past might inspire the next generation to take us to heights we never imagined.