Robertson, Aaron: The Black Utopians: Searching for Paradise and The Promised Land in America 2024 The Black Utopians: Searching for Paradise and the Promised Land in America describes t he Pastor Albert Cleage, Jr., pastor and founder of The Shrine of the Black Madonna in Detroit and the architect of Black Christian Nationalism . The book also describes the artist Glanton Dowdell, who painted the Black Madonna. The book actually begins with another Uto pia, Promise Land, Tennessee, ancestral home of the author , Aaron Robertson, and his father, Dorian Robertson, whose letters to Aaron are dispersed thro ughout the text. Marian started us out, saying, " I enjoyed it a lot and in fact I looked it up to see if the Shrine was still open and it is open but it’s only the church, the store and the other community spaces have closed but the fact that they did it, and remember, it was during my lifetime, I...
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