Andre E. Johnson
@aejohnsonphd.bsky.social
Award-winning Author and Rhetorical Historian | Professor of Communication | Rhetoric, Race and Religion, Sigma 1914🤘🏾
I wonder why no one gets upset at conservatives?
November 11, 2025 at 5:28 PM
I wonder why no one gets upset at conservatives?
So anybody mad at conservatives?
November 11, 2025 at 5:07 AM
So anybody mad at conservatives?
Are they still eating the cats and dogs?
November 11, 2025 at 5:06 AM
Are they still eating the cats and dogs?
The Certificate in Religion and Practical Theology is designed to equip students, ministry leaders, and laypeople with essential tools for impactful service. This program emphasizes the interplay between theological reflection and ministry practices.
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Certificate in Religion and Practical Theology - Memphis Theological Seminary
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November 11, 2025 at 12:44 AM
The Certificate in Religion and Practical Theology is designed to equip students, ministry leaders, and laypeople with essential tools for impactful service. This program emphasizes the interplay between theological reflection and ministry practices.
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How is this for a headline:
Voters elected and put in charge conservatives who are now causing delays at our airports.
Voters elected and put in charge conservatives who are now causing delays at our airports.
November 8, 2025 at 10:38 PM
How is this for a headline:
Voters elected and put in charge conservatives who are now causing delays at our airports.
Voters elected and put in charge conservatives who are now causing delays at our airports.
How does the prophet know what the prophet declares? How does the prophet know that God is calling the prophet to do the work of God? How does the prophet know what to say, when to say it, and how to say it?
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Taking the Inward Journey: Prophetic Rhetoric's Listening Function
What I would like to do in this essay is to turn my attention to what I call prophetic rhetoric’s listening function. In other words, how does the prophet know what the prophet declares? How does the ...
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November 8, 2025 at 10:09 PM
How does the prophet know what the prophet declares? How does the prophet know that God is calling the prophet to do the work of God? How does the prophet know what to say, when to say it, and how to say it?
www.academia.edu/48254013/Tak...
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In this essay, by way of speculative history and my sanctified imagination, I wonder what an alternative history would look like if we could conceive of Woodson as challenging the dominant (exclusively white) notions of public address and rhetorical praxis.
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My Sanctified Imagination: Carter G. Woodson and a Speculative (Rhetorical) History of African American Public Address, 1925–1960
In 1925, Herbert Wichelns published The Literary Criticism of Oratory. By many accounts, the essay would become the founding document of the academic study of rhetoric and public address. However, in ...
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November 8, 2025 at 10:07 PM
In this essay, by way of speculative history and my sanctified imagination, I wonder what an alternative history would look like if we could conceive of Woodson as challenging the dominant (exclusively white) notions of public address and rhetorical praxis.
www.academia.edu/50846251/My_...
www.academia.edu/50846251/My_...
The essays that follow address a wide range of salient issues, showcasing both how scholars of rhetoric contribute to a richer understanding of Hip Hop and rhetoric and how Hip Hop helps to shape our understanding of rhetoric.
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Creating Purpose, Power, and Passion: Sister Souljah and the Rhetoric of Hip Hop
This article introduces a special issue of the Journal of Contemporary Rhetoric addressing the rhetoric of Hip Hop. The essays that follow address a wide range of salient issues, showcasing both how s...
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November 8, 2025 at 10:06 PM
The essays that follow address a wide range of salient issues, showcasing both how scholars of rhetoric contribute to a richer understanding of Hip Hop and rhetoric and how Hip Hop helps to shape our understanding of rhetoric.
www.academia.edu/82977852/Cre...
www.academia.edu/82977852/Cre...
How do we communicate with people who are not telling the truth? How do we build community with people who live and perpetuate lies? What do civility, morality, and justice look like amid incivility, immorality, and injustice? www.academia.edu/83223848/Com...
Communicating Change in Chaotic Times: Toward a Maatian Understanding of Civility
As a field, and especially for those of us who are religious communication scholars, we have addressed notions of civility. We have used civility to understand our research, pedagogical practices, and...
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November 8, 2025 at 10:04 PM
How do we communicate with people who are not telling the truth? How do we build community with people who live and perpetuate lies? What do civility, morality, and justice look like amid incivility, immorality, and injustice? www.academia.edu/83223848/Com...
In this introductory essay for this special issue, I encourage scholars in the fields of homiletics and rhetoric to expand our understanding of homiletical and rhetorical theory by focusing specifically on the unique rhetoric of Black sermons.
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Introduction: Black Preaching and the Black Sermon as a Rhetorical Artifact
In this introductory essay for this special issue, I encourage scholars in the fields of homiletics and rhetoric to expand our understanding of homiletical and rhetorical theory by specifically concen...
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November 8, 2025 at 10:02 PM
In this introductory essay for this special issue, I encourage scholars in the fields of homiletics and rhetoric to expand our understanding of homiletical and rhetorical theory by focusing specifically on the unique rhetoric of Black sermons.
www.academia.edu/129135936/In...
www.academia.edu/129135936/In...
We invite you to join our "Power to the People" series, each Sunday at 6:00 pm CST. Our goal is to foster informed, compassionate, and proactive engagement in civic life.
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Power to the People Series
Welcome to the G'Life Institute's "Power to the People" series, part of our Education for Public Engagement Ministry. Each Sunday at 6:00 pm CST, we will host an informational session designed to empo...
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November 8, 2025 at 6:07 PM
We invite you to join our "Power to the People" series, each Sunday at 6:00 pm CST. Our goal is to foster informed, compassionate, and proactive engagement in civic life.
Register here.
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And no major news outlets are calling for him to resign.
November 8, 2025 at 3:56 PM
And no major news outlets are calling for him to resign.
Through the plight of one woman trying to save her daughter from starvation, “Rovina’s Choice” traces the effects of Donald Trump’s executive order banning US foreign aid, made within hours of being sworn into office in January 2025. www.youtube.com/watch?v=Oj0P...
"Rovina's Choice" Shows How The Shutdown of U.S.A.I.D. Has Already Killed Hundreds of Thousands
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November 8, 2025 at 3:52 PM
Through the plight of one woman trying to save her daughter from starvation, “Rovina’s Choice” traces the effects of Donald Trump’s executive order banning US foreign aid, made within hours of being sworn into office in January 2025. www.youtube.com/watch?v=Oj0P...
One day we will stop allowing them to gaslight us.
New York millionaires: threatening to flee the city since 2009
November 8, 2025 at 3:33 PM
One day we will stop allowing them to gaslight us.
Will voters remember who fought so hard to deny SNAP benefits?
November 8, 2025 at 4:53 AM
Will voters remember who fought so hard to deny SNAP benefits?
SCOTUS gives conservatives cover.
November 8, 2025 at 4:52 AM
SCOTUS gives conservatives cover.
In this chapter, I examine how supporters of BLM appropriate their own understanding of faith and spirituality to describe their involvement with the movement. www.academia.edu/100494203/My...
My God is Black, My God is Female: Rhetoric, Race, and the Spirituality of Black Lives Matter
In this chapter, I examine how supporters of BLM appropriate their own understanding of faith and spirituality to describe their involvement with the movement. In short, I discuss how participants say...
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November 6, 2025 at 11:32 PM
In this chapter, I examine how supporters of BLM appropriate their own understanding of faith and spirituality to describe their involvement with the movement. www.academia.edu/100494203/My...
In this chapter, I examine Du Bois within the Black prophetic tradition. I argue that Du Bois’s rhetorical trajectory — from advocating voting to abstaining in the 1956 election — coincided with his shift from a mission-oriented prophet to a pessimistic one.
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Democracy in America Is Impossible: The Pessimistic Prophecy of W. E. B. Du Bois in “Why I Won’t Vote”
In this chapter, I chart this change by examining Du Bois within the African American prophetic tradition. I argue that Du Bois’s rhetorical trajectory from advocating voting to his decision to abstai...
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November 6, 2025 at 11:30 PM
In this chapter, I examine Du Bois within the Black prophetic tradition. I argue that Du Bois’s rhetorical trajectory — from advocating voting to abstaining in the 1956 election — coincided with his shift from a mission-oriented prophet to a pessimistic one.
www.academia.edu/104045992/De...
www.academia.edu/104045992/De...
In this chapter, I call on us to understand how we use rhetoric as a method and to explore how rhetorical approaches to religion can contribute to a deeper and more meaningful conception of both religion and race. www.academia.edu/108269700/Ra...
Race at the Intersection of Rhetoric and Religion
In this chapter, I call on us to understand how we use rhetoric as a method and to explore how rhetorical approaches to religion can contribute to a deeper and more meaningful conception of both relig...
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November 6, 2025 at 11:29 PM
In this chapter, I call on us to understand how we use rhetoric as a method and to explore how rhetorical approaches to religion can contribute to a deeper and more meaningful conception of both religion and race. www.academia.edu/108269700/Ra...
This essay serves as the foreword for the book "The Civil War and the Summer of 2020" edited by Hilary N. Green and Andrew L. Slap.
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Telling the Story: George Floyd and the Legacy of Black Truth
This essay serves as the foreword for the book "The Civil War and the Summer of 2020" edited by Hilary N. Green and Andrew L. Slap.
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November 6, 2025 at 11:28 PM
This essay serves as the foreword for the book "The Civil War and the Summer of 2020" edited by Hilary N. Green and Andrew L. Slap.
www.academia.edu/115881592/Te...
www.academia.edu/115881592/Te...
In this second volume, we have curated some of the most extraordinary African American sermons (and spoken word) delivered during the first six months of quarantine that specifically address the COVID-19 Global Pandemic and/or America's civil unrest. www.academia.edu/144815068/Th...
The Black Pulpit Speaks, Vol. 2
In this second volume, we have curated some of the most extraordinary African American sermons (and spoken word) delivered during the first six months of quarantine, based on New Testament scriptures ...
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November 6, 2025 at 11:27 PM
In this second volume, we have curated some of the most extraordinary African American sermons (and spoken word) delivered during the first six months of quarantine that specifically address the COVID-19 Global Pandemic and/or America's civil unrest. www.academia.edu/144815068/Th...
With this project, our aims are simple. We envisioned this book to be a collection of sermons from those who preach within the Black preaching tradition.
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The Rhetoric of the Black Pulpit: The Collection of Black Sermons, Vol. 1
With this project, our aims are simple. We envisioned this book to be a collection of sermons from those who preach within the Black preaching tradition. By publishing these sermons, we hope to addres...
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November 6, 2025 at 11:26 PM
With this project, our aims are simple. We envisioned this book to be a collection of sermons from those who preach within the Black preaching tradition.
www.academia.edu/144814925/Th...
www.academia.edu/144814925/Th...
Beware of the projections of conservatives!
November 6, 2025 at 4:35 PM
Beware of the projections of conservatives!
This is what happens when conservatives are in charge.
November 6, 2025 at 2:20 PM
This is what happens when conservatives are in charge.
Texas still is not ready.
November 6, 2025 at 4:54 AM
Texas still is not ready.