Howard Thurman and MLK in Boston and Beyond

Black in Boston and Beyond

In this episode, Dr. Hettie V. Williams is in conversation with Dr. Tejai Beulah Howard about Howard Thurman, Martin Luther King, Jr. and their intellectual connection as well as the experience of both men in Boston. Williams is the incoming director of the Trotter Institute at UMass Boston and Beulah-Howard is spiritual director, scholar of African American, race and American Christianity as well as a former senior editor with Black Perspectives the award- winning blog of the African American Intellectual History Society (AAIHS). She received her PhD from Drew University Theological School where she also received the Rev. Robert W. Edgar Prize for Social Justice for her dissertation on the Black freedom struggle. She is also involved with Freedom Church of the Poor and several professional organizations. Dr. Beulah Howard’s recent writing is featured in the book, We Cry Justice: Reading the Bible with the Poor People’s Campaign (Broadleaf, 2021) edited by Rev. Liz Theoharis, The Other Journal, Interpretation: A Journal of Bible and Theology, and Journal of American Academy of Religion. She is currently at work on a monograph on the role of the black power movement and black evangelical preachers. Beulah Howard is fast becoming one of the foremost scholars studying Howard Thurman is the U.S. today as evidenced with the roundtable that she recently organized for Black Perspectives found here: Howard Thurman and the Civil Rights Movement and for more about her work as a spiritual director click here: A Soul Vibe LLC

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