Black Liberation Theology

The next topic we will talk about in our exploration of religion in the United States is Black Liberation Theology, a radical strand of Christianity that emerged in the 1960s as a response to the rise of Islam and the Black Power movement in the African-American community.

This briefly became a hot news item in the United States when it was learned that President Obama had been a member of such a church, led by the Reverend Jeremiah Wright, for many years in Chicago up to the presidential election. This created a big media scandal when comments that were viewed to be anti-American surfaced.

Here are two brief articles I want you to read:

James Cone and Liberation Theology

Article on Jeremiah Wright Scandal