by Bob | Feb 9, 2009 | Beyond the Suffering, slave Spirituals, Spirituals, The Journey
The Journey: Forty Days of PromiseCelebrating the Legacy of African American ChristianityDay Twenty-Three: Praising the LordWelcome to day twenty-three of our forty-day intercultural journey. From Martin Luther King Day to the end of Black History Month we are...
by Bob | Jan 28, 2008 | African American, slave Spirituals
Looking at African American History through the Spirituals*A Review of: Nikki Giovanni, “On My Journey Now.”With her opening words, author Nikki Giovanni imparts truth needed by all readers as a context for the spirituals. “We say that the slavers went to Africa to...
by Bob | Nov 28, 2007 | African American Church, slave Spirituals, Spirituals
African American Spirituals: Telling the Rest of the Story[i] To appreciate the meaning, message, and mutual ministry of the slave spirituals, it is vital to understand how and why they were composed. Carey Davenport, a retired Black Methodist minister from Texas, had...
