A collection of lectures featuring particularly prominent speakers, many of whom are guests to the university.
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A collection of lectures featuring particularly prominent speakers, many of whom are guests to the university.
Copyright © 2024 TUTV – Temple University Television. All rights reserved.
Blockson Lecture: John Elliott Churchville
“The Religion/Politics Nexus and Black Oppression,” a lecture by Dr. John Elliott Churchville, focuses on the historical background of the symbiotic relationship between religion and politics. Dr. Churchill discusses the context of Black oppression within a Eurocentric religion/political nexus, as well as practical suggestions for confronting and struggling effectively against it.
Dr. Churchville is a civil rights activist and founder of Philadelphia’s Freedom Library Community Project, which later became the Freedom Library Day School. He is currently Chairman/CEO of the Liberation Fellowship Community Development Corporation, and author of Provocative Thoughts for Black Men and Conversations with My Progeny: An African Elder’s Legacy to the Young People in His Village.