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Eugene F. Rivers III is the founder of the Seymour Institute for Black Church and Policy Studies. He is also a Pastor and a community activist based in Boston.
A second roundtable with Eugene Rivers, bell hooks, Randall Kennedy, Regina Austin, and Selwyn Cudjoe, with Margaret Burnham as moderator.
A roundtable with bell hooks, Cornel West, and more.
A response to Noam Chomsky.
Black problems are real, and often getting worse. We need new leadership community-based leadership in the black community.
We need an intellectually serious program of cooperative and engaged research, focused on the basic life conditions of Black Americans.
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