Changing Faces of 21st Century Black Churches and Politics
*This post is part of our online forum with the Pew Research Center. The February 2021 Pew report, “Faith among
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Black Political Thought
Black Christian Faith: Perennial Decline, Respectability, and “the back of the church”
In the wake of Black religious affiliation surveys, Afro-Protestants have often implored religious institutions (churches, denominations, colleges, associations, conventions, seminaries)
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Paul Robeson–The Revolutionary
It was reported in his New York Times obituary that Paul Robeson became a “virtual recluse” by the time of his death
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Call for Submissions: The Gary National Political Convention of 1972
Black Perspectives, the award-winning blog of the African American Intellectual History Society (AAIHS), invites blog posts centering on the Gary
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Until I Am Free: Teaching Fannie Lou Hamer Past and Present
What we don’t know about the real life of the civil rights leader, Fannie Lou Hamer could fill a
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