Abstract
How do Black churches in the US participate in the down-ness/decline of black women in church and society? And how does such participation intersect with the twenty-first century surge of neo-fascism in the US? Negotiating the slogan that propels contemporary MAGA politics, Make America Great Again, the essay considers the challenge of constructive womanist ethics in the face of false narratives of decline that endeavor to make something that has never been great, great again. Finally, it considers the triumph of black womensethical living amidst enduring structural evil and death-dealing traditions in the church. It does this via a hermneutical excursus on Martin Luther King, Jr., the most prominent of the “great race men,” by retrieving how his mother, Alberta Williams King - and not just the men of his ancestry - molded his prophetic preaching and his understanding of present glory.
