Phillip Luke Sinitiere

Phillip Luke Sinitiere is a professor of history at the College of Biblical Studies, a predominately African American school located in Houston’s Mahatma Gandhi District. A scholar of American religious history and African American Studies, his latest publication is “James Baldwin: Biographical Dispatches on a Freedom Writer.”


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W. E. B. Du Bois’s Revolutions

“Today I have reached my conclusion,” wrote W. E. B. Du Bois on October 1, 1961: “Capitalism cannot reform itself; it is doomed to self-destruction. No …