A story of leadership, lineage, and the transformational power of education In his historically grounded memoir, Always Looking Forward, James Edward Bowers adds an essential voice to the story of how Black South Carolinians used education as a vehicle...

When a classmate mocks the words on Zion's favorite shirt, he's left without an answer - and without the confidence he woke up with that morning. That night, Zion's parents help him trace "I Am" back to its source: the name God used for Himself, long...

Delia is an American ceramicist beginning an artist residency in Azurin, on the edge of the Red Sea. But something about the city thwarts her creativity, and her art stagnates, no matter how she or her cousin tries to make her feel more at home. New...

When the United Holy Church of America moved to curtail women's ordination in 1924, Ida Bell Robinson broke away to found a church where women would not only preach but lead. The Subversive Pulpit argues that Robinson used her agency and autonomy amid...

When the United Holy Church of America moved to curtail women's ordination in 1924, Ida Bell Robinson broke away to found a church where women would not only preach but lead. The Subversive Pulpit argues that Robinson used her agency and autonomy amid...

Constructing a Black Curriculum reframes how we understand Black Americans' intellectual and political engagement with education during the first half of the twentieth century. It traces the powerful, diffuse movement created by Black Americans to build...

Constructing a Black Curriculum reframes how we understand Black Americans' intellectual and political engagement with education during the first half of the twentieth century. It traces the powerful, diffuse movement created by Black Americans to build...

For nearly one hundred years, the 92nd Division of the U.S. Army in World War I has been remembered as a military failure. The division should have been historically significant. It was the only African American division of the American Expeditionary...

Known worldwide as Lead Belly, Huddie Ledbetter (1889-1949) is an American icon whose influence on modern music was tremendous - as was, according to legend, the temper that landed him in two of the South's most brutal prisons, while his immense talent...

This book explores Christology in the Gospels through the lens of Black theology, offering insights on both spiritual formation and Jesus' self-understanding. Hakim J. Lucas contends that Jesus' famous "I Am" statements from the Gospel of John not only...