Mystic Stories From The Sketchbooks of Henry Ossawa Tanner
In addition to making paintings, Henry Ossawa Tanner also expressed his creativity by writing stories. Most of them sit silently
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Black Studies
Deciphering the Ancestral Common Ground of Black Religion
*This post is part of our online forum with the Pew Research Center. Pew Research Center headlines herald, “generational patterns are changing,”
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On Black Religion and Domestic Globalization
*This post is part of our online forum with the Pew Research Center. “Faith Among Black Americans” raises a number of
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Black Christian Faith: Perennial Decline, Respectability, and “the back of the church”
In the wake of Black religious affiliation surveys, Afro-Protestants have often implored religious institutions (churches, denominations, colleges, associations, conventions, seminaries)
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Flyboy Meets Guerrilla Scholar
Mulling over how to deal with the passing of Robert Farris Thompson, the famed “guerilla scholar,” as he termed himself—he
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