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This chapter considers how the multiple, merged COVID-19 crises have reawakened the activist vision of the sanctuary movement. Much as hush harbors, the Underground Railroad, and other historic segregated and subversive endeavors brought together spiritual courage and secular concerns, this modern-day sanctuary movement relies upon an invisible institution’s spirituality in order to save Black lives. This new, impromptu sanctuary movement is a rapid response to stay-at-home mandates and racial hostility in which the faith of Black people resurfaces in live-streaming spaces to provide asylum and amelioration in the face of national indifference to a lethal virus and systemic racism. Through media analysis and clergy/congregational COVID case studies, the author examines those experiencing deadly stress as pandemic and violent racism collide. She explores the ways this pandemic has compelled the pragmatic saliency of Black faith to strip away pretenses and proclaim what matters most in saving Black lives and Black souls. |
