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“We Needed Both of Them”: The Continuing Relevance of Rev. Albert B. Cleage Jr.’s (Jaramogi Abebe Agism—Cleage’s iconoclastic approach to Black religious, theological, and intellectual thought sought to destroy “myths” about these two eminent figures, and in so doing, he was able to offer the world a radical interpretation of Martin and Malcolm that has remained relevant and far-reaching in contemporary African American thought.

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Politics Is Sacred: The Activism of Albert B. Cleage Jr. cities: Detroit, Atlanta, and Houston. This chapter examines this history and explains why the dichotomy between the political and religious (secular and sacred) realms represents a false binary in the progressive black religious tradition in America.

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Black Power and Black Madonna: Charting the Aesthetic Influence of Rev. Albert Cleage, Glanton Dowdeicon as visual symbol for Black Power. Dialoging with Black Art Movement figures such as Amiri Baraka and Elridge Cleaver, Cleage and the Shrine of the black Madonna remains absent from art histories, despite the fact that they were active participants in shaping this Black Arts Movement history.

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The Power of a Black Christology: Africana Pastoral Theology Reflects on Black Divinityion of . magazine, which features an image of a Black Jesus on the cover. Butler makes clear the impact that Cleage’s radical black Messiah had in not only improving the black self-image but also informing the development of an Africana pastoral theology, a theology of resistance and liberation.

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Image is Everything? The Significance of the , in the Development of African American Youthelevance of this work require further consideration. This chapter explores the ways in which the marginalization of the black Messiah represents a potential preoccupation with respectability and neglect of engagement with historical and contemporary expressions of Black identity and cultures.

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A Crucified Black Messiah, a Dead Black Lovek Messiah offers the Christological framework that can help black people love themselves. But Jackson asks the poignant questions: Where did Cleage’s Christ go? Why did he die? He offers poignant answers to these questions.

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Savior King: Re-reading the Gospels as Greco-Africana Literature & Re-imaging Christ as Messianic Ph the New Testament and other early Christian literature shaped by the tradition of triumphant kingship as constructed in ancient Egyptian and Nubian texts. A reconsideration of historical and textual sources may point to the rise of a new black Messiah that re-affirms the sovereignty of the downtrodden over and against global imperium.

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He Is Black and We Are Queer: The Legacy of the Black Messiah for Black LGBTQ Christiansmunity. Just as Cleage claimed black people have accepted a false and racist theology, a slave theology, Lightsey makes clear they have also accepted a false, heteronormative theology. This chapter challenges Cleage and his adherents to respond to the questions of womanist and womanist queer theologies.