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Celebrating Gospel Music After the Civil Rights Era

Late in March 2021, Black Twitter became enraptured by a leaked call between critically acclaimed gospel artist, Kirk Franklin, and

John Thompson Jr. often said, “I tell everyone I speak two languages fluently—English and profanity.” He used language and stories

In her book In the Wake: On Blackness and Being, scholar Christina Sharpe described her concept of “wake work” as “a

We still have far too few histories of Black journalists. Even as biographers have written on Alex Haley, Ethel Payne,

Earlier this year, political scientist and Black feminist Julia Jordan-Zachery asked the question, “What do Black women think about the