Enjoy the Kosher Collard Greens, But Understand This: Hebrew Israelites Have Something to Say to the Rest of the Jewish Community
At the 1995 Source Awards, Outkast’s Andre3000, delivered his now iconic shot across the bow…
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What Did Kyrie Say That Was So Wrong? When Black Antisemitism Meets White Jewish Privilege
So, let’s start with a joke. A Black nationalist female rabbi, a Black male womanist…
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The Uses and Abuses of the Legacy of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.
In January 1994, a week after the King holiday, I walked into the lobby of…
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What Passover Taught Me About Being Black
As Passover approaches this weekend I often reminisce about how, as a young child, the…
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Before We Scold DeSean Jackson and Others For Anti-Semitism We Need To Talk About ‘Chosenness’
Over the past week, two prominent African-American celebrities have been condemned for promoting anti-Semitism because…
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‘Don’t Call Me Black No More, I’m an Israelite’: Kendrick Lamar, Black Hebrew Religion, and Black Suffering
Kendrick Lamar’s fourth album, Damn, (stylized “DAMN”) has been number one on the Billboard charts for the…
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Year-End Best Books in Race and Religion in American History
With all the memes wishing a good riddance to 2016, and John Oliver’s epic send-off…
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Fear of a New Jewishness
I was most struck by one too-clever turn of phrase in the recent Pew Survey of U.S. Jews. The summary read, “believing in Jesus, however, is enough to place one beyond the pale: 60% of U.S. Jews say a person cannot be Jewish if he or she believes…
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How New Religions Are Made
“For me, the process of writing this book was a real eye-opener that demonstrated that even small, some might say, “marginal” religious groups are connected in so many ways to so many other groups, crossing lines of space, race, and time. It led me to rethink the utility of the “marginal” and to discover just how rich those religions are as a way of understanding the world.”
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