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Bill Moyers Journal (2007-2010)
About this film
With recent news events bringing the noose and the lynching tree into the national discourse, Bill Moyers interviews theologian James Cone about his book, THE CROSS AND THE LYNCHING TREE, and how these powerful images relate to the symbol of the cross and how they signify both tragedy and triumph. Dr. Cone is the Charles A. Briggs Distinguished Professor of Systematic Theology at Union Theological Seminary in New York. He is best known for his groundbreaking works: BLACK THEOLOGY & BLACK POWER (1969) and A BLACK THEOLOGY OF LIBERATION (1970). He is also the author of the highly acclaimed GOD OF THE OPPRESSED (1975) and MARTIN & MALCOLM & AMERICA: A DREAM OR A NIGHTMARE? (1991).
Directors & creators
American Archive of Public Broadcasting
Subjects
public broadcasting, AAPB, Bill Moyers, James Cone, Billie Holiday, Martin Luther King Jr., Malcolm X, African Methodist Episcopal Church, Union Theological Seminary, lynching, systematic theology, Christianity, race relations, noose, racial terror, black theology, Jim Crow South, Jena Louisiana
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