Eugene F. Rivers III

Eugene F. Rivers III is the founder of the Seymour Institute for Black Church and Policy Studies. He is also a pastor and a community activist based in Boston.

Faith in Politics? — Final Response

A new black political agenda.

  • Eva T. Thorne
  • Eugene F. Rivers III

Beyond the Civil Rights Industry

Black problems are real, and often getting worse. We need new leadership community-based leadership in the black community.

  • Eva T. Thorne
  • Eugene F. Rivers III
with responses from
  • Lani Guinier
  • Cathy J. Cohen
  • J. Phillip Thompson
  • Ronald J. Sider
  • Alan Wolfe
  • Julianne Malveaux
  • Ellen Willis
  • Peter Dreier
  • Manning Marable

Silence Is Death

An interview with the Rev. Eugene Rivers III.

  • Eugene F. Rivers III
  • Eva T. Thorne

Beyond the Nationalism of Fools

We need an intellectually serious program of cooperative and engaged research, focused on the basic life conditions of Black Americans.

  • Eugene F. Rivers III
with responses from
  • Robin D. G. Kelley
  • Michael Bérubé
  • Tony Martin
  • Martin Kilson
  • Glenn C. Loury
  • Bruce Nichols
  • Lisa Y. Sullivan
  • Mark Tushnet
  • Bob Hulteen

The Responsibility of Black Intellectuals, Part 2

A second roundtable with Eugene Rivers, bell hooks, Randall Kennedy, Regina Austin, and Selwyn Cudjoe, with Margaret Burnham as moderator.

  • Eugene F. Rivers III
  • bell hooks
  • Randall L. Kennedy
  • Margaret A. Burnham
  • Regina Austin
  • Selwyn Cudjoe
  • Joshua Cohen

The Responsibility of Black Intellectuals

A roundtable with bell hooks, Cornel West, and more.

  • Eugene F. Rivers III
  • Margaret A. Burnham
  • Henry Louis Gates Jr.
  • bell hooks
  • Glenn C. Loury
  • Cornel West
  • Anthony Appiah

On the Responsibility of Intellectuals in the Age of Crack

A response to Noam Chomsky.

  • Eugene F. Rivers III
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