Historian Barbara Savage’s book,

    Historian BARBARA SAVAGE talks her new book, “Your Spirits Walk Beside Us: The Politics of Black Religion.” It’s about the tension between faith and political activism in black churches. Savage is Professor of American Social Thought and History at the University of Pennsylvania. Listen to the mp3

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