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Changing Faces of 21st Century Black Churches and Politics

February 11, 2022February 10, 2022 Nicole Myers Turner #PewResearchForum, Black church, black politics, Black Religion, Black Theology, Preacher

*This post is part of our online forum with the Pew Research Center. The February 2021 Pew report, “Faith among

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)

Online Forum with Pew Research on Black Religious Affiliation

February 9, 2022February 8, 2022 AAIHS Editors #AAIHSRoundtable, #PewResearchForum, race, religion

Black Perspectives, the award-winning blog of the African American Intellectual History Society, is collaborating with the Pew Research Center to

Paul Robeson–The Revolutionary

February 8, 2022February 7, 2022 Tony Pecinovsky Activism, black intellectual history, Black radicalism

It was reported in his New York Times obituary that Paul Robeson became a “virtual recluse” by the time of his death

Why Black AIDS History Matters

February 7, 2022February 6, 2022 Dan Royles Activism, black lives matter, black protest

As we enter the third year of the Covid-19 pandemic, it might be easy to forget that in early 2020