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Malcolm X’s Gospel

March 28, 2022March 27, 2022 Ellen McLarney black intellectual history, black nationalism

In April 1957, Malcolm X began writing his “God’s Angry Men” column in the New York Amsterdam News, immediately after the brutal police

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Mystic Stories From The Sketchbooks of Henry Ossawa Tanner, Part 2

March 3, 2022March 2, 2022 Kwabena Slaughter black art, Christianity, Henry Ossawa Tanner, Storytelling, Writing

For Part One from last week, click here. Since its publication in 1969, the biography written by Marcia M. Mathews

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Mystic Stories From The Sketchbooks of Henry Ossawa Tanner

February 24, 2022February 23, 2022 Kwabena Slaughter black art, Christianity, Henry Ossawa Tanner, Storytelling, Writing

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 Social Gospel, Radical Politics, and Internationalism

February 22, 2022February 21, 2022 William Hogue black intellectual history, black internationalism, Black radicalism, religion

Often the history of radical Black Christians seems to jump from Abolition to Civil Rights with very little in between.

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Deciphering the Ancestral Common Ground of Black Religion

February 17, 2022February 16, 2022 James Padilioni Jr #PewResearchForum, Black church, Black Religion, Islam, Prayer, Vodoo

*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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