A Framework for an Empowering and Dignified Life.  An excerpt from Jason Littlefield’s forthcoming book titled Empowered Humanity Theory: A Framework for an Empowering and Dignified Life available November 2023.

Being a victim of racial discrimination is not exclusive to being black.

Listen now (110 mins) | An interview with FBT co-founder and true neutral Michael David Cobb Bowen

When Wink Twyman responded to Jen Richmond’s article decrying a diversity training program she participated in he didn’t know it would kickoff a letter correspondence that spanned the course of years. Letters in Black and White: A New Correspondence on Race in America is the compendium of these...

On this inaugural episode of The Free Black Thought Podcast, host Connie Morgan and FBT President Erec Smith discuss Erec’s origin story, the importance of rhetoric, and what the anti-racist movement gets wrong.

I did this one a little differently, as I sat with my thoughts for the last week. Big changes by the supreme court, some our furious. I'm mostly sad...for th...

Rhetoric, or the ability to discern the available means of persuasion in a given case, can be an aid to abundance. If people don’t know how to talk to certain people or groups, especially those who differ from themselves, they miss out on social moments, good conversations and professional or...

Liberals spread misleading information, too.

In this episode, Joe chats with Jake Mackey about the woke takeover over academia; the importance of preserving and studying the art and ideas of the past; h...

Scratch beneath the surface and it’s clear Gen Z are often conscientious and tolerant.

FAIR Perspectives: In this episode, we speak with Dr. Erec Smith. We discuss his field of rhetoric, what led him to it, African-American Vernacular English versus Standard English, the implications of what activists call "linguistic justice

Retire the word and focus on ideas

Throughout most of the history of Western civilization, rhetoric was seen as one of the primary subjects of the liberal arts. After more than century of decline, the study of rhetoric is making a comeback. This is good news, since to combat political polarization, we can all benefit from the...

Introductory essay: Welcome to the Journal of Free Black Thought, a publication dedicated to foregrounding the widely diverse black perspectives that are rarely given room, and hence rarely encountered, in mainstream idea spaces. The Journal will publish essays that address black history, black...

Edited by Matthew Abraham and Erec Smith. © 2013 by Parlor Press. 243 pages. Provides the first comprehensive treatment of why Obama's rhetorical strategies were so effective during the 2008 presidential campaign, during the first four years of his presidency, and once again during the 2012...