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Black Religious Fostering of American Civic Ideals

January 20, 2023January 16, 2023 R. Drew Smith #BlackIntellectualDemocracy, Black Christianity, democracy, Faith, Marian Wright Edelman, Martin Luther King Jr.

This post is part of our forum on Black Intellectuals and the Crisis of Democracy. Black Christians have been key agents

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John Hope Franklin and WWII as a Crisis of Democracy

January 19, 2023January 13, 2023 Thomas Cryer #BlackIntellectualDemocracy, black intellectuals, Historians, John Hope Franklin, World War II

This post is part of our forum on Black Intellectuals and the Crisis of Democracy. Since its 1947 publication, extensive literature

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Norman Lewis and the Responsibility of Presentness

January 18, 2023January 13, 2023 Clay Matlin #BlackIntellectualDemocracy, art, black intellectuals, democracy, Norman Lewis

This post is part of our forum on Black Intellectuals and the Crisis of Democracy. The general consensus, scholarly and lay,

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James Weldon Johnson, Langston Hughes, and the Ever-Deferred Dream

January 17, 2023January 17, 2023 Amy Kittelstrom #AAIHSRoundtable, #BlackIntellectualDemocracy, black intellectual history

This post is part of our forum on Black Intellectuals and the Crisis of Democracy. Once Africans began being forced onto

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Dr. King and the Foundation of a Black Intellectual-Activist

January 16, 2023January 15, 2023 M. Keith Claybrook, Jr. #BlackIntellectualDemocracy, black intellectual history, Black radicalism

This post is part of our forum on Black Intellectuals and the Crisis of Democracy. The Reverend Dr. Martin Luther King,

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