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Hidden figures: How black women preachers spoke truth to power

  • Written by Kenyatta R. Gilbert, Associate Professor of Homiletics, Howard University
imageSojourner Truth Memorial in Florence, Massachusetts.Lynne Graves, CC BY-ND

Each semester I greet the students who file into my preaching class at Howard University with a standard talk. The talk is not an overview of the basics – techniques of sermon preparation or sermon delivery, as one might expect. Outlining the basics is not particularly...

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