Left of Black S2:E23 | Politics and the Prophetic Vision of the Black Church

Left of Black S2:E23 | March 12, 2012
Politics and the Prophetic Vision of the  Black Church
Host and Duke University Professor Mark Anthony Neal is joined via Skype©by Professor Obery M. Hendricks,author of TheUniverse Bends Towards Justice (Orbis Books)and visiting scholar at The Institute of Research and African American Studiesin the department of Religion at Columbia University.  Hendricks shareshis recent experience at singer Whitney Houston's home going ceremony, andexplains how it gave people access to traditions in the Black church. Neal and Hendricks discuss why gospel music does not get the same kind ofcriticism as contemporary R&B and hip-hop for not being conscious andengaged in the world.  Lastly, Hendricks discusses the biblical vision ofeconomic society. 
Later, Neal is joined via Skype© by Rev. Osagyefo UhuruSekou who is a documentary filmmaker, publicintellectual, organizer, pastor, theologian, and author of the book Gods,Gays, and Guns: Essays on Religion and the Future of Democracy (Campbell & Cannon Press).  Rev. Sekou discusses the PropheticTradition of the Black Church  and its role in holding President BarackObama accountable. Rev. Sekou also addresses homophobia and hip-hop in thecontext of the Black church.
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Left of Black is a weekly Webcast hosted by Mark Anthony Neal and produced incollaboration with the John Hope Franklin Center at Duke University.
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