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Undaunted Resistance: Joseph Lowery and the Spirit of SCLC

April 30, 2020April 26, 2020 R. Drew Smith Activism, Black church, civil rights, Civil Rights Movement, religion

Against all odds, a movement for racial justice took hold in mid-20th-century America, emerging from within the racially-heated South, and

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A Faithful Heretic: Joseph Lowery and the Politics of the Mass Movement

April 28, 2020April 26, 2020 Corey D. B. Walker Activism, Black church, civil rights, Civil Rights Movement, democracy, religion

A strange land requires a familiar song. That’s why members of the community of faith sing the Lord’s song in

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Watchmen, Haunting, and the Religious Imagination

February 12, 2020February 9, 2020 James Howard Hill, Jr. #AAIHSRoundtable, #Watchmen, race, Racial Violence, religion, white supremacy

*This post is part of our online forum organized by Ahmad Greene-Hayes on HBO’s hit series Watchmen. “There are people

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Black Gods Among Us: In and Beyond HBO’s Watchmen

February 11, 2020February 9, 2020 Ahmad Greene-Hayes #Watchmen, Black Queers, race, Racial Violence, racism, religion, Resistance, Visual Culture, white supremacy

*This post is part of our online forum organized by Ahmad Greene-Hayes on HBO’s hit series Watchmen. In the early

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On Nostalgia: HBO’s ‘Watchmen’ and Black Religion in Three Sacred Facts

February 10, 2020February 9, 2020 Rhon Manigault-Bryant #Watchmen, Black film, digital media, film, music, popular culture, religion

*This post is part of our online forum organized by Ahmad Greene-Hayes on HBO’s hit series Watchmen. Warning: This essay

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