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Jonathan L. Walton

Jonathan L. Walton is assistant professor at Harvard Divinity School. His lastest book is: Watch This! The Ethics and Aesthetics of Black Religious Broadcasting (New York University Press).

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Religion Dispatches

Is Barack the Hip-Hop Panacea?

Hip-Hop hater and black conservative Stanley Crouch has linked criticism of hip-hop culture to the ascendancy of Barack Obama. But is it true?
Jonathan L. Walton
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Religion Dispatches

Giving Thanks to Genocide

Kids dress up in pilgrim and Native American costumes and parents protest. There is nothing to be served, they say, by dressing up as a racist stereotype.
Jonathan L. Walton
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Religion Dispatches

Rev. Ella Pearson Mitchell (1917-2008)

She was the dean of black women preachers, but she was also much more than that. Our lives are blessed by her memory.
Jonathan L. Walton
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