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Malcolm X and Liberation Theology
Nellie Bailey and Glen Ford
10 Oct 2017
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“The theological imagination gives us the opportunity to reframe the conversation in the service of justice,” said Dr. Vincent Lloyd, who teaches theology at Villanova University. Malcolm X espoused the religion of the “field Negro,” and “called out his contemporaries, including Dr. King, when they were too invested in the powers that be.”

Black Liberation Theology

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