Attending church is one thing, belonging is another.

I make a special point of working on Thanksgiving Day. I have friends I go out with but I even make it plain to them. The standard reason for Thanksgiving doesn't mean nothing to me.

The acceptance of the facts of African-American history and the African-American historian as a legitimate part of the academic community did not come easily. Slavery ended and left its false images of black people intact.

Egypt gave birth to what later would become known as 'Western Civilization,' long before the greatness of Greece and Rome.

Anytime someone says your God is ugly and you release your God and join their God, there is no hope for your freedom until you once more believe in your own concept of the 'deity.'

Europeans not only colonized most of the world, they colonized information about the world.

I attended a Baptist church as a child and was an avid reader starting with the Bible.