Yolanda Pierce

Professor and Dean of the Howard University School of Divinity. Previously she was the Director of the Center for Black Church Studies and Associate Professor of Religion and Literature at Princeton Theological Seminary where her research specialties included African American Religious History and Womanist Theology.

Professor and Dean of the Howard University School of Divinity. Previously she was the Director of the Center for Black Church Studies and Associate Professor of Religion and Literature at Princeton Theological Seminary where her research specialties included African American Religious History and Womanist Theology.

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Howard University professor Yolanda Pierce talks with KCRW’s Jonathan Bastian about the origins of the Black church from slavery to the Civil Rights movement and it’s legacy to Black…

The history, legacy and future of the Black Church

Howard University professor Yolanda Pierce talks with KCRW’s Jonathan Bastian about the origins of the Black church from slavery to the Civil Rights movement and it’s legacy to Black…

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