Those Jewish acts were visible and audible statements of their identity. Statements of pride in their own culture that ...

Others argue the church is very much alive, and point to the results of the 2008 Pew Religious Landscape Survey that shows that African Americans are more likely than any other ethnic or racial ...

started in April, 1906, with a group of African American washpeople ... bodies touching where you had not had that so much in religious services before. And second is the interracial component ...

Religious freedom is more than the ‘freedom ... from opening their doors and providing their services to African Americans. These laws enforced widespread discrimination and denied African ...

From the “hush harbor” religious gatherings of enslaved people in the American South to contemporary Black churches, African-derived spirituality has significantly shaped North American ...

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Others resisted Christianity, as, at best, an insufficient replacement for their traditional African religion and a tool of white domination. And still others were coaxed into Christendom ...

The African American Studies program is an interdisciplinary program examining African life and culture, both on the African continent and the diaspora. As a student, you will learn about the African ...