We testify with our lives : how religion transformed radical thought from black power to Black Lives Matter /

Police killings of unarmed Black people have ignited a national and international response unlike any in decades. But differing from their civil rights-oriented predecessors, today's activists do not think that the institutions and values of liberal democracy can eradicate structural racism. Th...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author:	Johnson, Terrence L. (Author)
Format:	Book
Language:	English
Published:	New York : Columbia University Press, [2021]
Subjects:	Black power > United States. African American radicals. African American intellectuals. African Americans > Intellectual life. Radicalism > United States > Religious aspects > Christianity. Civil rights > Religious aspects. Civil rights movements > United States. African Americans > Politics and government.

Table of Contents:

Politics of healing
Awakening to black power consciousness
Martin Luther King, Jr.'s religious radicalism
Malcolm X and the spirit of humanistic activism
Humanistic nationalism and the ethical turn
SNCC's Palestinian problem
The religion of black power.