'Hagar's Daughters' is an eloquent plea directed at Christian Black women to use the strengths of their African heritage as a force to heal the divisiveness and sterile domination present in Western society....

New York’s urban neighborhoods are full of young would-be emcees who aspire to “keep it real” and restaurants like Sylvia’s famous soul food eatery that offer a taste of “authentic” black culture. In these and other venues, authenticity is considered...

Britton (French, U. College London) considers that most of the authors are better known for their work in literary and political areas besides psychoanalysis, which indicates to her the pervasiveness of Freudian thought in the French Caribbean. So persistent was...

Devastating circumstances still enslave most African Americans in American society today, especially in urban environments. They struggle with economic devastation, family disintegration, black-on-black crime, unemployment, political and social injustice, as well as the structural racism that fuels all of these.In...

Religion has always been a focal element in the long and tortured history of American ideas about race. In The Burden of Black Religion, Curtis Evans traces ideas about African American religion from the antebellum period to the middle of...

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Hollies' latest offering is a Bible study on the covenant that Ruth made to Naomi-what she refers to as "sister friends"-as they left Moab on their way to Jerusalem. Hollies creatively retells this story using the liturgical year-Advent, Christmas, Epiphany,...

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Gayraud S. Wilmore, an internationally renowned scholar of the history of the African American church, is one of the founders of black theology and author of Black Religion and Black Radicalism. Pragmatic Spirituality brings together some of his most compelling...

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