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Will Religion Solve the Obesity Crisis?

By Andrew Aghapour

…ge your day-to-day relationship with tempting foods. Chocolate cake has to code-switch, from “a thing I want and must resist” to “a thing I don’t want right now,” and that happens in the ACC. As Roundling’s study shows, religious thoughts seem to help with short-term code switching because they offer a concrete set of alternative values. Similarly, when Warren says that caring for his body is a “stewardship issue,” he might be actively molding his…

In a New Manifesto Framing ‘Wokeness’ as Religion John McWhorter Sounds Like Moses Condemning Israel for Worshipping Golden Calf of Black Power

By A. E. Brooks-Key

…’s Sowell’s “Anointed” or McWhorter’s “Elect,” the conclusion is the same: African Americans as a group are either unwitting or conscious dupes for liberal white social policy to their own detriment. Borrowing from feminist chronology, McWhorter calls wokeness “third-wave antiracism,” with the abolitionist movement and Reconstruction comprising the first-wave of anti-racism and the civil rights movement signaling the second. For McWhorter, however…

Watching 81% of My White Brothers and Sisters Vote For Trump Has Broken Something in Me

By Yolanda Pierce

…d uncompensated labor. And I am a Christian–a faith that was birthed in an African cradle. I am not going to leave the faith bequeathed to me by my foremothers and forefathers. But I will always speak truth from my lived experience as an African American living in a nation in which the structural sins of racism, sexism, and other forms of oppression are clearly evident even in the body of Christ. Yet I do not know as I write this whether the work…

Rev. Ella Pearson Mitchell (1917-2008)

By Jonathan L. Walton

…stication of the black spoken word tradition that extends back to the West African griot. And, more importantly, she helped to open the minds (and improve the preaching) of scores of male clergy who claimed the pulpit as their gendered birthright. Whether in Oakland, Atlanta or Russia she reached beyond the African American community and across gender lines to teach what W.E.B. DuBois suggested over a hundred years ago, “The black preacher is the…

Election 2016: Postracial Blues, #BlackVotesMatter, Evangelicals for Trump, and “Who Are We Now?”

By The Editors

…_____________________________ Who is the “We”? Yolanda Pierce Professor of African American literature and religion at Princeton Theological Seminary and author of Hell Without Fires: Slavery, Christianity & the African American Spiritual Narrative The frenzy of the primary election cycle is taking place during the Christian season of Lent, a period of religious observation between Ash Wednesday and Easter Sunday when Christians pause to reflect o…

The Nation of Islam at the End of the Apocalyptic Age?

By Anna Clark

…que that was once the Nation’s Temple No. 1 in Detroit. Walid notes that, “African American Muslims with no relation to the Nation of Islam are very quick to distance themselves from the Nation.” “At the same time, many African Americans feel a connection with the Nation,” added Walid, who is also the executive director of the Council on American-Islamic Relations’ Michigan chapter. “Maybe they were former members, or they have family members who…

Harry Jackson Fundraises for Anti-Obama Campaign

By Peter Montgomery

…white audience that white evangelicals needed to do more than reach out to African Americans on wedge issues; that if they wanted success in the long-term, they would have to do more to confront issues facing the African American community, like poverty and educational opportunities. He said he was worried about racial violence in Florida when George Zimmerman is released, and about the potential for violence if Obama is not re-elected. “I’m conce…

Beck’s “Dream”—Our Nightmare

By Julie Ingersoll

…In his telling, the modern Republican Party is the party more favorable to African-Americans because Republicans led the fight against slavery and for civil rights: from the formation of the Republican Party as the “anti-slavery party” and the “election of Abraham Lincoln as the first Republican President,” to the Emancipation Proclamation, the Thirteenth and Fourteenth Amendments, the passage of civil rights laws during Reconstruction, and the el…

Will Sarah Palin Ruin The Religious Right’s African-American Outreach?

By Sarah Posner

…esn’t damage his standing with either the Foundation or the North Carolina Republican Party), who said “many black Republicans don’t use Sarah Palin as a benchmark.” As I’ve reported, the religious right is working hard — through the Frederick Douglass Foundation and other organizations — to reinvent itself as a racially diverse movement. But as much as Palin is adored by religious right activists, it’s always appeared that she operates outside mu…

Before Black Twitter: How the Early Black Press Shaped American Discourse Around Race and Religion

By Benjamin P. Fagan

…es. But I also had in mind the handful of other scholars who work on early African-American print cultures, and especially those who paved the way for my own research. The study of early African-American print is having something of a renaissance right now, with a number of books, conferences, and journal special issues devoted to the topic emerging in the past few years. So it could seem (and some have claimed) that this is a newly invented field…