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The Black Church, a documentary hosted by Henry Louis Gates, earlier this week. The panel will touch on a range of issues from politics and church leadership to membership, attracting younger people, and more. Guests include Rev. Mariama White-Hammond, founding pastor of the New Roots AME Church; Rev. Barbara Simmons of Plymouth African Methodist Episcopal Church; Rev. James Ross, Area Conference Minister, Northeast Region of the Southern New England Conference of United Church of Christ; and Amey Victoria Adkins-Jones, PhD, Assistant Professor of Theology and African and African Diaspora Studies at Boston College.
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The revolutionary spirit of Boston inspires Ibram X. Kendi.
But he’s not thinking about the Boston Tea Party or the ride of Paul Revere to warn that the British were coming.
And he’s not just driven by walking in the literal footsteps of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., who attended Boston University as a doctoral student in theology nearly 70 years before Kendi joined its faculty last summer as the Andrew W. Mellon Professor in the Humanities.
Khari Thompson
The revolutionary spirit of Boston inspires Ibram X. Kendi.
But he’s not thinking about the Boston Tea Party or the ride of Paul Revere to warn that the British were coming.
And he’s not just driven by walking in the literal footsteps of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., who attended Boston University as a doctoral student in theology nearly 70 years before Kendi joined its faculty last summer as the Andrew W. Mellon Professor in the Humanities.
No, Kendi – author of the 2019 best-selling book How To Be An Antiracist – has two mid-19th-century Boston abolitionists on his mind: Maria Stewart, a free-born Black woman he calls the mother of modern feminism; and the journalist William Lloyd Garrison, a journalist who published The Liberator newspaper from 1831 until the Civil War ended. Both advocated for the complete emancipation of enslaved people in America as early as the 1830s.