Category: African American Humanism

The black body has always been an object of deep and abiding obsession in the American imagination. Be it cavorting with “funky” abandon on a dance floor, vaulting off a basketball court in dunk mode, suckling apple-cheeked white babies, trotted out in a police lineup, or greased down, poked, prodded, and displayed on a slave …

The con man claimed to be a devout man of God: the title “visionary” figured prominently on his business card. Going door-to-door with promises of easy mortgage-refinancing deals and claiming to have a direct line to the Lord, Timothy Barnett wheedled his way into the houses of elderly homeowners in South Los Angeles. Scared, vulnerable, …

The rise of the so-called New Atheism has brought forth numerous critics and criticisms. Some critics believe that religionists who hold negative religious ideas are not influenced by their “sacred” texts. Rather, they use or misuse religious texts only after they have embraced some insidious agenda. This view is incredibly biased in favor of faith. …