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Agents of Change: Black Freethinkers Then and Now

August 17, 2020August 16, 2020 Lauren T. Rorie black intellectual history, religion

Religion, as part of the trifecta of “sex, politics, and religion” is the most under-examined aspect of contemporary Black feminist

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Prophetic Black Ecologies: Liberatory Agriculture on Beulah Land Farms

July 27, 2020July 26, 2020 Priscilla McCutcheon #BlackEcologies, Black church, Black Ecologies, black nationalism, Deep South, freedom, geography, Georgia, landownership, religion, Resistance, self-determination, slavery, South

*This post is part of our series on Black Ecologies edited by Justin Hosbey, Leah Kaplan, & J.T. Roane. “The forced planting

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Transformative Faith–The Black Lives of Unitarian Universalism

June 29, 2020June 28, 2020 Chris Cameron black lives matter, religion

In July 2015, a group of Black Unitarian Universalists met at the Movement for Black Lives Convening in Cleveland, Ohio

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Wayward Negro Religions in the 20th Century Slum

May 21, 2020May 17, 2020 Ahmad Greene-Hayes #AAIHSRoundtable, #WaywardLives, black feminism, black intellectual history, Black women, Gender, religion

*This post is part of our joint online roundtable with the Journal of African American History. The beautiful anarchy of

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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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