Black Church

A colleague suggests, in response to Andre Wills’ recent RD article, that being evangelical is no more antithetical to the prophetic strand of the black church than R&B is to gospel music…

Does Obama’s coded evangelical language signal a shift from black prophetic politics to the evangelical politics of personal salvation?

Was Obama’s speech just an exercise in kumbaya idealism?

Agonized analyses about the proper relation between church and state too often miss the point.

It is simply assumed that black politicians live or die by the support of black preachers—but is it true?

William D. Hart’s new book charts the black spiritual imagination through the journeys of Malcolm X, Julius Lester, and Jan Willis.

New books by Anthea Butler, Willam Hart, Edward Blum, and Victor Anderson, among others, deepen the discussion of race and religion in the US.

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

Misdirected finger-pointing and flat-footed social analysis has accompanied purposeful protests and mass social action in the response to the passage of Prop 8.

Obama supporters should “chill out” in the face of this swiftboating via the conflation of Obama and Wright into an undifferentiated brown blob of black radicalism broadcast together in a twenty-four hour news cycle.