The one thing all of us have in common is a childhood. The stage in our lives where we are nurtured, taught the basics of life and develop emotions like love, pain and anger. As we mature from childhood to adulthood, depending of which of these emotions impacted us the most as kids, eventually that feeling will affect us over time. The Sojourn From A Black Man To A Godly Man tells the life journey of a young man as he struggles to replicate the love snatched from him when his mother died early in his childhood.
Richard Wright is one of the most important African American writers. He is also one of the most prolific.
The Black Man's Burden
It's an image— that ofa small group of triumphant souls, weary but determined, arms linked in a gloriously liminal dance with death—that's reminiscent of the one that concludes Ingmar Bergman's The Seventh Seal.
Instead, I leave because I believe it is time for us to leave the white man and go among our own people just as the 'prodigal son' overcame his difficulties only after returning to his people.” Despite Ahmad's dismissive attitude ...
The color designation would have been reinforced by the Algonquians' custom of blacking their faces for war or grieving; see Mary Rowlandson, The Sovereignty and Goodness of God, ed. Neal Salisbury (Boston, 1997), Ios, Io9; ...
The publication of the King James version of the Bible, translated between 1603 and 1611, coincided with an extraordinary flowering of English literature and is universally acknowledged as the greatest...
Interviews with the descendents of figures such as Paul Robeson and Oliver Golden offer rare personal insights into the story of a group of emigrants who, confronted by the daunting challenges of making a life for themselves in a racist ...
The second book in a 3 volume set, this is a companion volume to African Origins of the Major Western Religions and The Need for a Black Bible.
Father O'Malley reveals what it means to be an adult male Christian in today's world by focusing on heroes of the Bible, from Abraham to Jesus. Younger and older men alike can begin to focus on what it means to be a Christian.
This book is a collection of sermons preached at home and abroad, intended mainly for a lay audience, which presents teachings and applications of biblical texts from both the Old and New Testaments.