Black Studies - AAIHS

On Black Religion and Domestic Globalization

February 16, 2022February 15, 2022 Sherman A. Jackson #PewResearchForum, Black Christianity, Black church, black muslims, Black Religion, Nation of Islam

*This post is part of our online forum with the Pew Research Center. “Faith Among Black Americans” raises a number of

Black Christian Faith: Perennial Decline, Respectability, and “the back of the church”

February 10, 2022February 9, 2022 Vaughn A. Booker #PewResearchForum, Black church, Black Protestantism, Black Religion, Humor, religion

In the wake of Black religious affiliation surveys, Afro-Protestants have often implored religious institutions (churches, denominations, colleges, associations, conventions, seminaries)

Flyboy Meets Guerrilla Scholar

December 16, 2021December 15, 2021 Herb Boyd africa, Greg Tate, music, Robert Farris Thompson, Scholar

Mulling over how to deal with the passing of Robert Farris Thompson, the famed “guerilla scholar,” as he termed himself—he

Lawrence Reddick and the Communal Acts of Black History

October 7, 2021October 6, 2021 Stephen G. Hall academia, black intellectual history, Black Power, Black Reconstruction, Higher education

African American history has always been a communal act. From its inception in the nineteenth century, Black men and women,

A Jubilee: Can HBCU Publications Revamp Education?

October 6, 2021October 5, 2021 Rochelle Spencer and DeLisa Harris Activism, black intellectual history, education, HBCU, Newspapers

Thank you to the the library team at Fisk University, especially Dr. Brandon Owens and Dr. Magana Kabugi; their