"Our national conversations about poverty -- so entangled with race in unspoken ways -- have rendered the white poor invisible and the black poor pathological, and undermined our attempts to gain majority support for anti-poverty programs."
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What does the apparent rise in atheism and agnosticism (pdf) among blacks tell us about the utility of religion for African Americans in today's social and political climate? Interviews with academics, activists and advocates from everywhere on the religious spectrum reveal the diversity of views on this historically fraught -- and, for many, highly personal -- topic.
For the fifth in the series, The Root talked to Zaheer Ali.
Read the interview here.
African Americans, Atheism, Christianity, Islam, Religion, The Root in Web They were a "veritable tribe" taught and guided by the Columbia University scholar of African-American life. Here are their tributes.
Read my remembrance, along with those of my friends and colleagues, here.
African American Studies, Columbia University, History, Manning Marable, The Root in Web The people of Egypt are looking to African Americans for solidarity in their struggle, just as we once looked to them in our own efforts to gain freedom and civil rights. When will we speak up for them?
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African Americans, Egypt, Malcolm X, The Root in Web In reading the hallowed document on the House floor, Republicans tried to avoid the parts that referred to people as property, but this was as ineffective as censoring Huckleberry Finn.
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African Americans, Congress, Constitution, Slavery, The Root in Web
The seminal TV show rode a wave of black achievement to challenge racial stereotypes. But Katie Couric's well-intentioned statements to the contrary, American Muslims will need more than a situation comedy to counter Islamophobia.
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Cosby Show, Islam, Islamophobia, Muslims, The Root in Web
Long before Sept. 11, African-American Muslims were the targets of anti-Muslim fears.
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African Americans, Islam, Islamophobia, Muslims, The Root in Web