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Cornel West

The Supreme Love and Revolutionary Funk of Dr. Cornel West, Philosopher of the Blues

(A version of this article first appeared in the May 28, 2009 Rolling Stone.) Cornel West is a slender man, but he hugs like a sumo wrestler: crouch, grab, wrap…

Killing the Buddha

Happy Easter from Cornel West

Every religious tradition has been tied into various forms of domination and subjugation. Every religious tradition has been manipulated and bastardized by elites to try to control believers. At the…

The man called Allah

The Man I Call Allah

Allah was born on February 22, 1928. His mother named him Clarence.

Killing the Buddha

Not That Kind of Girl

Carlene Bauer does not care for the new biography of Flannery O’ Connor by Brad Gooch: Aquinas is described as having “lofty, lucent prose” — which is like saying Plato…

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The Cross and the Color Line

They killed King Jesus and Dr. King. Can anything ever be all right again?

Bob Jones

Being Black at Bob Jones U.

A fundamentalist university enters the age of integration. Sort of.

The Tucumcari Devils, New Mexico High School Champions, 2000

Lost Temple of the Pennytitties

Tall tales and blood libel in the New Mexican desert.

Ali in the Ring

Muhammad Speaks

Cassius Clay vs. Osama bin Laden: A fight for the American idea of Islam.

"Hair 2001," by Jeremy Brothers for KtB

Among the Jesus Freaks

Sit-in, pray-in, sing-in, and be-in with the son of a preacher man and a camp of Christian acidheads.

Detail of Renee Cox, in The Pieta, by Renee Cox

Yo Mama’s Orthodoxy

The mayor, the artist, and the sacred faith of the elite.