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Cosmological Queerness Across the Yoruba Diaspora

February 5, 2017April 2, 2018 James Padilioni Jr Afro-Brazilians, Black Queers, Brazil, religion, slave trade, slavery

The constellating topics of homosexuality and masculinity are perennial to Black American discourses. In contemporary debates, the chorus shouting loudest

Black Women and the Peoples Temple in Jonestown

January 31, 2017February 3, 2017 Sikivu Hutchinson religion

On November 18, 1978, over nine hundred members of the San Francisco-based Peoples Temple church (including over three hundred children)

The Art And Lives of James Baldwin: An Interview with Douglas Field

January 15, 2017March 26, 2017 Phillip Luke Sinitiere black intellectual history, black radical tradition, Black radicalism, religion

This month I interviewed Douglas Field about his book All Those Strangers: The Art and Lives of James Baldwin. Field

The New Black Atheists

December 3, 2016December 2, 2016 Chris Cameron religion

Christianity has played a central role in African-American life from the late 18th century to the present. Black churches raised

W.E.B. Du Bois, 1868–1963. Photo: Library of Congress.

W.E.B. Du Bois and the Bahá’í Faith

October 16, 2016October 15, 2016 Guy Emerson Mount religion, W.E.B. Du Bois

Recently the AAIHS held a workshop at the University of Pennsylvania where the contributors to its forthcoming anthology, New Perspectives