By examining the minister who helped inspire the founding of the Harlem Unitarian Church Reverend Ethelred Brown, Floyd-Thomas offers a provocative examination of the religious and intellectual roots of Black humanist thought.

Roger A.Sneed offers an alternative approach to black homosexualityforblack religious scholars who have traditionally viewed homosexuality as a problem. Instead, by drawing on a range of black gay writers, Representations of Homosexuality points black religious scholarship towards an ethics of openness."

In the extreme context of the American slavocracy, how do we account for the robust subjectivity and agency of Frederick Douglass?