“We have Come This Far by Faith: Liberation Theology and Destiny in the African American Experience”

African American Intellectual Thought Symposium

“We have Come This Far by Faith: Liberation Theology and Destiny in the African American Experience”

Date: April 29, 2011
Time: 3:30-6:00 p.m.
Place: Leon Peters Recreation Center Auditorium

“A Conversation With My Christian Brothers: Is God A White Racist?”

Keynote Speaker: John McClendon, Department of Philosophy, University of Michigan

Dr. McClendon is a full professor of Philosophy and has published the definitive work on C.L. R. James. His book is entitled C.L.R. James’s Notes on Dialectics: Left Hegelianism or Marxism-Leninism. McClendon is on the advisory board of Blackpast.org and the editorial advisory board of the journal, Cultural Logic and co-editor of the American Philosophical Association Newsletter-Philosophy and the Black Experience.

“Obama, Wright, and Faith in America”

Speaker: Pamela Y. Cook

Ms. Cook attained her doctorate of jurisprudence from Emory University School of Law. At present, she is attaining her M.Div at the United Theological

Seminary in New Brighton, Minnesota. Ms.Cook is a licensed Baptist Minister and participated in Dr. Jeremiah A. Wright, Jr.'s Minister in Training program. Ms. Cook is also the former Director of Minority Affairs at Georgia College and State University. She was a caucus precinct captain for the Obama presidential campaign in Iowa.

“Power of God and the Power of History: My Theological Odyssey to Liberation Theology”

Speaker: W.J. Moussa Foster

W. J. Moussa Foster is a theologian and an independent scholar. He earned his M.A. in African Peoples History from the University of Minnesota and completed doctoral work in African history. He is currently attaining his M.Div at the United Theological Seminary in New Brighton, MN. Mr. Foster has coordinated the pioneering cultural studies program at Luther College. He has published the well received essay, “Up From Brutality: Ending Sexual Violence in Black Communities,” in Transforming A Rape Culture.

For further information contact Dr. Malik Simba, Coordinator, Africana Studies Program at maliks@csufresno.edu or 278-2832.