Black Perspectives is running an online forum on civil rights activist and Christian mystic Howard Thurman. Here are the pieces they have published: Tejai Beulah Howard, Howard Thurman’s Biographer: An Author Interview with Peter Eisenstadt Dorsey Blake, Beyond Faiths and...
I haven’t had a chance to watch the new PBS series, “The Black Church: This Is Our Story, This Is Our Song,” but I am reading some rave reviews. Henry Louis Gates‘s series is streaming here. I am hoping to...
Howard Thurman was a mid-20th century theologian, writer, activist, and mystic who had a profound influence on the leaders of the Civil Rights movement. Thurman’s writings–especially his 1949 work Jesus and the Disinherited–provided an intellectual and spiritual guide to those trying to...
