Black Protest, Preaching, and (Re)Presentations

Posted on May 2, 2016 by Dr. Regennia N. Williams, Founder, President, and Executive Director
MLK and Washington Monuments

The Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Memorial and the Washington Monument, 2016.

CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS

 

The Revolution Is Now Being Televised and Tweeted:

Black Protest, Preaching, and (Re)Presentations,

From the Black Arts Movement to #BlackLivesMatter, c.1965-2016

 

for

The Journal of Traditions & Beliefs

Spring 2017

 

Regennia N. Williams, PhD, Editor

 

The revolution will not be televised, will not be televised,

Will not be televised, will not be televised.

The revolution will be no re-run brothers;

The revolution will be live.

— Gil Scott-Heron, 1970

 

 

The assassination of El Hajj Malik El Shabazz (Malcolm X)—and the related rise in Black Nationalism, Amiri Baraka’s founding of the Black Arts Repertory Theatre/School, the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.’s leadership role in the Selma to Montgomery March, the passage of the Voting Rights Act, the world premiere of Duke Ellington’s Sacred Concert, and other bold experiments in music, visual arts, and literature are all associated with 1965. In the history of a decade characterized by seismic shifts in Black thought, 1965 marked a watershed, and the revolutionary spirit of that year continued beyond the 1960s.

 

The Journal of Traditions & Beliefs (JTB) invites submissions for its Spring 2017 issue, The Revolution Is Now Being Televised and Tweeted: Black Protest, Preaching, and Cultural (Re)Presentations, From the Black Arts Movement to #BlackLivesMatter, c.1965-2016. Publishable manuscripts will reflect scholars’ and artists’ diverse viewpoints on the evolving role of various religious, spiritual, and cultural traditions in the digital age—especially when considered in relationship to Black church history, political thought, the arts (including the legacies of Amiri Baraka and Gil Scott-Heron), and ongoing debates about education, human rights, and social justice.

 

JTB, a peer-reviewed open access journal, publishes scholarly articles, essays, creative writing, book reviews, and K-12 curriculum materials. Manuscripts for articles and essays should be typewritten, single-spaced, no more than 15 pages in length (including Turabian-style footnotes and bibliography), and prepared using A Manual for Writers of Research Papers, Theses, and Dissertations (University of Chicago Press, 7th Edition or later). Poems, book reviews, and the introductions to lesson plans should not exceed 750 words.

For consideration, please submit all manuscripts by October 15, 2016 via the journal’s official website, http://engagedscholarship.csuohio.edu/jtb/ (The creation of a password protected account is required.) Authors will be notified of final decisions by December 15, 2016.

 

If you are interested in writing a book review or have other questions or concerns, please review the information in the “Policies” section of the JTB website, and contact Dr. Regennia N. Williams at regennia@gmail.com.

 

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About Dr. Regennia N. Williams, Founder, President, and Executive Director

Dr. Regennia N. Williams is the Founder and Executive Director of The RASHAD Center, Inc., a Maryland-based non-profit educational corporation. Williams holds a PhD in Social History and Policy from Case Western Reserve University in Cleveland, Ohio. A native Clevelander and a four-time alumna of Cleveland State University, information on RASHAD's “Praying Grounds, African American Faith Communities: A Documentary and Oral History” project is now available online at www.ClevelandMemory.org/pray/, a site that is maintained by CSU's Library Special Collections, home of the Praying Grounds manuscript collections. Praying Grounds was the primary inspiration for the launching of the Initiative for the Study of Religion and Spirituality in the History of Africa and the Diaspora (RASHAD) at CSU, and links to RASHAD's scholarly journal and newsletter are also available on the Praying Grounds site. On April 28, 2020, the RASHAD Center, Inc. became a tax-exempt 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization. In 2010, Dr. Williams was a Visiting Fulbright Scholar at Nigeria’s Obafemi Awolowo University, where she taught history and directed a RASHAD-related oral history project that focused on the role of religion in recent Nigerian social history. Other research-related travels have taken her to Canada, China, France, South Africa, and Austria. In 2013, she conceived and produced “Come Sunday @ 70: The Place of Duke Ellington’s Sacred Jazz in World History and Culture, c. 1943-2013,” a project that included scholarly presentations and performing arts activities. From September 1993 until May 2015, she was a faculty member in the Department of History at Cleveland State University. She served as a Fulbright Specialist at South Africa's University of the Free State in the summer of 2019, and completed a short-term faculty residency at Howard University in the fall of 2019. She is based in Cleveland, Ohio. As a public scholar, her current research projects focus on African American history and culture, especially as it relates to music, religion, and spirituality. She is a member of the Oral History Association, the Western Reserve Historical Society, and the National Museum of African American History and Culture.
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