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Daniel Black

Daniel Black
Daniel Black is an author and professor of African American studies at Clark Atlanta University. His books include The Coming, Perfect Peace and They Tell Me of a Home. He is the winner of the Distinguished Writer Award from the Middle-Atlantic Writer's Association and has been nominated for the Townsend Prize for Fiction, the Ernest J. Gaines Award, and the Georgia Author of the Year Award. He was raised in Blackwell, Arkansas, and lives in Atlanta, Georgia..


What Prayer Won’t Fix: How The Black Church Perpetuates White Supremacy and Patriarchy

Daniel Black on the Oppressive Role of Christianity in Black Culture
February 1, 2023  By Daniel Black
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The Lion Speaks: On the Potency of the Epistolary Form

Daniel Black Considers Letters and Linguistic Freedom
February 4, 2022  By Daniel Black
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