Free Black Thought favorite Winkfield Twyman joins his good friend and host Connie Morgan for a conversation about their friendship and the role that free thought plays in their bond.
Identifying as a victim obscured my true self
Learn to be a raceless antiracist
How we talk about one another matters
Mike and Wink delve into the evolution and nuances of “Black Pride,” examining its complexities and the varying perceptions of snobbiness, class, and success within black America.
Listen now | An interview with writer and artist Angel Eduardo
Embrace your own agency
A call for compassionate dissent and a return to liberty
Bowen and Twyman discuss the meaning of recent protests at college campuses.
W. B. Allen's keynote at the 2024 Alumni Summit on Free Expression
Spoken word written and performed by Tiffanie Victoria Jones
What Commencement Says About the Culture. Wink shares his thoughts on what he would say in a commencement address, emphasizing the importance of respecting different perspectives and the power of conscience.
Chloé Valdary and host Connie Morgan discuss The Theory of Enchantment and how it can increase your well being. Chloé started her career as a Zionist activist but has shifted away from that line of work in her quest for universal delight.
Why do the racists' work for them? It came as a shock to me to discover while in university that not everyone who looked like me subscribed to and was limited by an internalized racial caste system.
April 19, FBT co-hosted a meetup for writers who publish on Substack. We ended up getting not only Substack writers but memoirists, writers for TV and screen, and writers for the New York Times, Atlantic, and elsewhere...
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As a trained theologian and womanist in Christian ministry, I look at race—the deification and demonization of skin and bones by social color-codes—as idolatry.
Many leftists claim that black Americans are crushed beneath a vast, racist social machinery. It is hard to imagine a more demoralizing message.
Mike's new Substack project, "Human Race Man": sample essay, "Have Race Relations Worsened?"
To promote true abundance, educators from a variety of disciplines must instill the basics of rational debate and consensus-building
Why is it important for me to talk about American slavery in 2024? It's really not important. I could live a fine and wonderful life and not give a second thought to American slavery. I think infinitely more often about dodging the homeless in downtown San Diego or about my daughter becoming...
Obligatory Seriousness. What does it mean to have “privilege” or a “privileged upbringing”? Is this just having parents with money, or is there something else involved?
Glenn Loury and Erec Smith (York College, Free Black Thought). Recorded November 13, 2023.
How to think about Richard Hanania's past racism and recent apology
