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Yolanda Pierce, PhD

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Yolanda Pierce, PhD

@YNPierce

Professor, Dean, womanist theologian, Black Church historian, New Yorker, Alpha Kappa Alpha, writer. Moving to: bsky.app/profile/ynpier…

Joined May 2012

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Yolanda Pierce, PhD
@YNPierce
Feb 4, 2025
It’s officially #PublicationDay. Welcoming “The Wounds are the Witness” to the world. Available wherever books are sold; audiobook narrated by me. I write about Black faith and the relationship between memory, healing, and justice. #BHM amazon.com/dp/1506485332/…
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Yolanda Pierce, PhD
@YNPierce
Nov 9, 2020
If only we hated poverty instead of hating poor people.
Yolanda Pierce, PhD
@YNPierce
Jul 13, 2022
"They edited out the sound of children screaming." One short sentence that breaks your heart. #Uvalde
Yolanda Pierce, PhD
@YNPierce
Oct 4, 2020
I will not perform false politeness in the presence of evil.
Yolanda Pierce, PhD
@YNPierce
Dec 13, 2020
White supremacists are tearing down and burning Black Lives Matter signs from churches. These are acts of both racial terror and religious violence. +
Yolanda Pierce, PhD
@YNPierce
Nov 19, 2021
Too often calls for "peace" really mean "be quiet" and accept whatever injustice is being perpetuated.
Yolanda Pierce, PhD
@YNPierce
Oct 28, 2017
He said "can’t have the inmates running the prison" when he really wanted to say "can't have slaves running the plantation." #TakeAKnee
Yolanda Pierce, PhD
@YNPierce
Dec 13, 2020
Replying to @YNPierce
White Christians: your silence and complicity, for 400 years, in the face of racial terror and religious violence against African Americans is theological malpractice.
Yolanda Pierce, PhD
@YNPierce
Dec 13, 2020
Replying to @YNPierce
Burning Black Lives Matter signs ripped from churches is an explicit threat to the sanctity of the Black church and to Black lives and freedom, even if the church itself is not historically Black.
Yolanda Pierce, PhD
@YNPierce
Dec 13, 2020
Replying to @YNPierce
You're a hypocrite and the truth ain't in you if you claim to love a God you haven't seen, while either condoning or being silent about acts of terror and violence against your actual neighbor.
Yolanda Pierce, PhD
@YNPierce
Dec 13, 2020
Replying to @YNPierce
Perhaps if you read some Liberation or Womanist theology, or some Critical Race Theory, you’d understand the relationship between silence, racial terror, and white supremacist theology.
Yolanda Pierce, PhD
@YNPierce
Jan 23, 2019
For black boys navigating this cruel world without PR firms, marketing consultants, and network news interviews, we pray.
Yolanda Pierce, PhD
@YNPierce
Dec 13, 2020
Replying to @YNPierce
But since that isn’t likely, here’s some scripture for you: woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! For you are like whitewashed tombs…inside are full of dead men’s bones and all uncleanness.
Yolanda Pierce, PhD
@YNPierce
May 12, 2021
One of my mistakes was believing I would be supported, helped, promoted, and rewarded to the same degree as my white colleagues. I thought my credentials, degrees, excellence, and work ethic would be as valuable than their connections. I was wrong.