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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)

Hair Discrimination, Anti-Black Racism, and Resistance

October 26, 2021October 25, 2021 Adele N. Norris Gender, race

This is the second of a two-part series about discrimination and Black hair. For part one, click here. The politics

The Life and Work of Mary Church Terrell

March 25, 2021April 18, 2021 Malaurie Pilatte Activism, black feminism, Black women, Jim Crow, Resistance

As many across the U.S. were gearing up last year to celebrate the hundredth anniversary of the nineteenth amendment and

Audre Lorde And I Were Once Enemies

February 16, 2021February 15, 2021 Kenyon Farrow #AudreLorde, Activism, black feminism, Gender, white supremacy

Audre Lorde and I were once mortal enemies. At least that’s the way it seemed. In late 2004, I wrote

Biographies of Women and Emancipation in the Americas

February 11, 2021February 11, 2021 Vanessa M. Holden Activism, African Diaspora, Black women, Gender, Resistance

Last fall, many people waited anxiously for the results of the U. S. elections. From Tuesday, November 3rd through Saturday,

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