The Camera and Black Moral Agency from MLK to Darnella Frazier |
The Prophetic Lens takes an important look at the use of the video camera as an indispensable prophetic tool for the security of Black lives and greater possibility for racial justice. Author Phil Allen Jr. shows how the camera can be a catalyst for cultural change. Chronicling the use of the camera, particularly in film from J.D. Griffiths’ Birth of a Nation to Spike Lee’s Do the Right Thing, Allen’s approach reveals how effective this technology has been in achieving the goals of its respective storytellers.
The book highlights both the prophetic potential of the camera and the context of Blackness as a liminal existence amid a context dominated by whiteness. |
| The Thinking of Martin Luther King Jr. |
Martin Luther King Jr. said and wrote as much or more about the meaning, nature, and power of truth as any other prominent figure in the 1950s and ’60s. King was not only vastly influential as an advocate for and defender of truth; he also did more than anyone in his time to organize truth into a movement for the liberation, uplift, and empowerment of humanity, efforts that ultimately resulted in the loss of his life.
Drawing on King’s published and unpublished sermons, speeches, and writings, The Arc of Truth explores King’s lifelong pilgrimage in pursuit of truth.
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