The Substance of Hope is acclaimed historian Jelani Cobb’s meditation on what Obama’s election represented
empowering us to live up to the legacy he has left us with his perseverance
These messages are pulled from a great variety of spiritual practices and teachings
Past and present mingle in this spine-tingling ghost story by award-winning author India Hill Brown
Bill joined in 1999
South to America African American Demographic Studies The Substance of Hope isAn essential, surprising journey through the history, rituals, and landscapes of the American Southand a revelatory argument for why you must understand the South in order to understand America We all think we know the South. Even those who have never lived there can rattle off a list of signifiers: the Civil War, Gone with the Wind, the Ku Klux Klan, plantations, football, Jim Crow, slavery. But the idiosyncrasies, dispositions, and habits of the