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African American Perspectives

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James Cone writes that the Newark and Detroit riots of 1967 and the assassination of Martin Luther King Jr. in 1968 forced him to realize "the bankruptcy of any theology in America that did not engage the religious meaning of the African American struggle for justice." Black perspectives matter. The history of Africans and men and women of African descent in the Americas is one of slavery, oppression, and struggle, and also a history of courageous faith, creativity, and vitality. African American scholars have brought new light to biblical texts, to the Christian tradition, and to contemporary society with insights that require universal consideration.

Fortress authors include the pioneers of the struggle for racial justice and current lights of theology in an African and African American key. 

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