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Robert M. Franklin provides first-person advice and insight as he identifies the crises resident within three anchor institutions that have played key roles in the black struggle for freedom. Black families face a "crisis of commitment" evident in the rising rates of father absence, births to unmarried parents, divorce, and domestic abuse or relationship violence. Black churches face a "mission crisis" as they struggle to serve their upwardly mobile and/or established middle class "paying customers" alongside the poorest of the poor. Historically black colleges and universities face a crisis of "relevance and purpose" as they now compete for the best students and faculty with the broad marketplace of colleges. With clarity and passion, Franklin calls for practical and comprehensive action for change from within the African American community and from all Americans.

Product Details

• Published on: 2007-02-01
• Released on: 2007-02-01
• Format: Kindle eBook
• Number of items: 1

About the Author
Robert M. Franklin is Distinguished Professor of Social Ethics
at Emory University. He has also served at the University of Chicago,
Harvard Divinity School, Colgate-Rochester Divinity School, and the
Interdenominational Theological Center, Atlanta, as well as at the Ford
Foundation. His prior books from Fortress Press include Liberating Visions:
Human Fulfillment and Social Justice in African-American Thought (1990) and Another Day's Journey: Black Churches Confronting the American Crisis (1997). A frequent commentator on public radio's "All Things Considered" he lives in Atlanta, Georgia.