A Celebration of Life: A Historian for the History Books</h1> <article> <h1>A Celebration of Life: A Historian for the History Books</h1> <p>JSorett — Thu, 26 Mar 2009 00:10:10 +0000</p> John Hope Franklin, Black Historian, Dies at 94 By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS Published: March 25, 2009 RALEIGH, N.C. (AP) — John Hope Franklin, a revered Duke University historian and scholar of life in the South and the African-American experience in the United States, died Wednesday. He was 94. Duke spokesman David Jarmul said Franklin died of congestive [...] </article> <article> <h1>Look out for “Watch This: The Ethics and Aesthetics of Black Televangelism”</h1> <p>JSorett — Tue, 24 Feb 2009 18:02:07 +0000</p> As we near the end of the first Black History Month in age of the first black president, I want to quickly share with everyone the arrival of an important and timely book: Watch This: The Ethics and Aesthetics of Black Televangelism, by Jonathan L. Walton. In case you didn’t already know, President Obama’s road to [...] </article> <article> <h1>A Backslidden Blogger, Inaugurating Obama and “The End of White America”</h1> <p>JSorett — Mon, 19 Jan 2009 01:52:44 +0000</p> It has been exactly one year since I made my last blog entry – can I still really call myself a blogger? Anyway, 2009 was quite an eventful year for me both professionally and personally. With regards to the latter, I entered the land of parenthood as my wife and I welcomed our son into [...] </article> <article> <h1>A Word From My Favorite Black Republican</h1> <p>JSorett — Fri, 18 Jan 2008 14:19:57 +0000</p> Hope this finds y’all well in the New Year… In light of what I will call the Obama Iowa Caucus scare, and the heating up of the Democratic primary race in its wake, I wanted to share with you a couple of emails from a good friend who I’ve known since my undergrad days at Oral [...] </article> <article> <h1>… to The Wire!!!!!!!!!!!</h1> <p>JSorett — Mon, 07 Jan 2008 01:50:39 +0000</p> The final season of HBO’s The Wire is set to begin in about 10 minutes. Enough Said! As they say, if you don’t know, you better ask somebody! Share This </article> <article> <h1>A Christmas Introduction to a New Fanon Scholar</h1> <p>JSorett — Tue, 25 Dec 2007 17:32:51 +0000</p> Good Afternoon and a Merry Christmas to you all: Yes, I am aware of the obvious contradictions (I prefer the term “complexities”) of sending out a blog that introduces a new work on one of the foremost radicals in the black intellectual tradition - Frantz Fanon - on this day, which has become perhaps the [...] </article> <article> <h1>Reflections on Hip Hop Culture, Christianity and Social Capital</h1> <p>JSorett — Mon, 03 Dec 2007 18:15:07 +0000</p> In recent years, references to Creflo Dollar, arguably the most popular black prosperity preacher of the day, have become a visual and verbal fixture in Hip Hop music. Such instances include a cameo appearance in Ludacris and Jermaine Dupri’s “Welcome to Atlanta” video, an invocation in a song by Fifty Cent, a professed pastoral [...] </article> <article> <h1>Beyond Culture vs. Structure</h1> <p>JSorett — Wed, 28 Nov 2007 16:55:54 +0000</p> It has been impossible to ignore the shouting match that has taken place over the past couple years between Michael Eric Dyson and Bill Cosby, but their debate - which many others have weighed in on - is part of a much longer dialogue regarding class divisions among black people living in the United States. [...] </article> <article> <h1>Living Religion - with a Laugh</h1> <p>JSorett — Tue, 23 Oct 2007 19:24:10 +0000</p> It has been well over one month since I last made a post to my blog… Much has transpired during this time that would typically be the type of material that I hope to engage and interrogate on this page, but for too many reasons I have chosen to abstain - to simply read rather [...] </article> <article> <h1>At the Intersections of Hip Hop and Church</h1> <p>JSorett — Mon, 10 Sep 2007 17:16:51 +0000</p> As many of you know, the vast majority of my working hours these days are spent trying to grind out a dissertation that looks at the ways black artists have engaged questions of religion and spirituality in their personal lives, creative writing and critical work. Currently, my mind is occupied with the 1960s-mid-1970s, [...] </article> </main></body></html>