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June 2020

June 01, 2020

Not Training but Character

Back in 2015, I wrote a piece on this blog about the shooting death of...

June 17, 2018

Dislocations and Shutdowns: #MLK, #BLM and the Rhetoric of Confrontation

On April 4, 2018, America commemorated the 50th year anniversary of the death of Martin...

June 12, 2018

From the Mountain Top and Beyond: The Rhetoric of #MLK 50 Years Later

I am pleased to announce the publication of this special issue of the Journal of...

June 04, 2018

Special Issue: Communication, Religion, and Race in America

I am pleased to announce that the Spring 2018 special issue of the Journal...

May 2018

May 31, 2018

The Most Dangerous Negro in America

by Andre E. Johnson and Anthony J. Stone, Jr. On April 4, 1968, on a...

March 2018

March 16, 2018

The Fallacy of Racial Reconciliation

Unrolled thread from @aejohnsonphd #MLK50 #BlackLivesMatter #WhiteChurchQuiet #EmptyThePews Donate to the Work of R3 Like...

March 10, 2018

Black Folks Get Woke on #WhiteEvangelical Churches and Leave

On Friday, March 9, 2018, the New York Times published a story addressed what the...

March 06, 2018

Why Do We Have Such a Disdain For Poor People?

One of the last campaigns that Martin Luther King worked on was the Poor People's...

February 2018

February 19, 2018

Race, Shrinking Whiteness, and Four Qualities of the Moral Imagination

On Tuesday, February 13, 2018, Dr. Frank A. Thomas delivered a lecture titled, "Race, Shrinking...

February 18, 2018

#MLK, #BLM and the Rhetoric of Confrontation

On Friday, February 16, 2018, I gave a talk titled "If We Can't Get It,...

January 2018

January 31, 2018

“To Make the World So Damn Uncomfortable”: W.E.B. Du Bois and the African American Prophetic Tradition

In the December 1918 issue of The Crisis magazine, W.E.B. Du Bois celebrated the end...

December 2017

December 05, 2017

Donald Trump, Religious Freedom, and the African American vote

from The Rhetoric of Religious Freedom in the United States, edited by Eric C. Miller....

October 2017

October 15, 2017

Henry McNeal Turner: Public Theologian

This article was first published in Christian History. Tradition holds that Henry McNeal Turner’s grandfather...

September 2017

September 25, 2017

How to Protest the Right Way

How can we protest without offending people? Here's a few ways:

September 04, 2017

Proposal for the Eight Hour Work Day

On September 9, 1868, the Atlanta Constitution published a portion of a speech that Henry...

August 2017

August 19, 2017

Are Conservatives and White Nationalists the Same on Policy?

On Wednesday August 16, 2017, I was a special guest on radio station 1340 WLOK's...

August 10, 2017

Introducing the #HMTProject

I discovered Henry McNeal Turner (1834-1915) by accident. While starting a seminar class in rhetorical...

July 2017

July 17, 2017

#DarriusStewart and Policing in America

Our editor, Dr. Andre E. Johnson was the guest on Let's Talk About It hosted...

June 2017

June 16, 2017

When Juries Cannot See Black People as Human

Today a jury in Minnesota (not Mississippi or Memphis) acquitted former officer Jeronimo Yanez in...

May 2017

May 22, 2017

God, Lynching and the Role of Faith

On May 21, 2017, the Lynching Sites Project of Memphis, in commemoration of the 100...

May 21, 2017

The Lynching of Ell Persons

On March 23, 2017, I gave a speech at Central High School in Memphis, Tennessee....

May 15, 2017

“Is this Hell”: The Mass Murder of Blacks During (Post) Reconstruction

Below is a presentation I gave on February 16, 2017 at the Violence and Memory:...

April 2017

April 12, 2017

White Silence and the Making of #WhiteChurchQuiet

On Monday Night April 3, 2017, the Center for Community Service and Justice at Loyola...

January 2017

January 30, 2017

Not Your Magical Negro: The Unrealistic Expectations of a Former President

In a recent Huffington Post article, Dave Jacobson and Maclen Zilber, seeing the “carnage” that...

January 20, 2017

A Prayer of Confession

As a person of faith and a faith leader, I come to any movement because...

January 15, 2017

#MLK: A Pessimistic Prophet?

While we are celebrating and commemorating the life and legacy of Rev. Dr. Martin Luther...

January 06, 2017

Resistance and the Black Faith Tradition

When the National Committee of Black Churchmen met in 1966 to argue for a theology...

December 2016

December 02, 2016

The State Sponsored Violence Against Black Bodies

Below is part of a speech I gave for the Center for African & African...

November 2016

November 25, 2016

Do We Even Care: A Conversation on Race and Racial Tensions?

Below is a speech I gave at New Bethel Baptist Church on November 1, 2016...

November 14, 2016

7 Debunked Myths from the Election

In the wake of the recent election, I put together a list of now debunked...

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