Teaching Religion, Politics, and Civil Rights
With undergraduates I recently explored the complexity of thought among several Civil Rights writers and activists. During our conversation, students
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Author: Chernoh Sesay Jr.
The American Revolution and the Hope of Black People
The recent convergence of publicized anti-black police violence, the emergence of the Black Lives Matter movement, and the approaching Presidential
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Far more people probably know the importance of January 1, 1863 than they do the significance of January 1, 1808.
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Reviewers of Ta-Nehisi Coates’ Between the World and Me have commented on the tension in his memoir between skepticism and
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I recently read Nicholas Brommel, The Time is Always Now: Black Thought and the Transformation of US Democracy (Oxford, UK:
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