About this episode
Jocelyn D. Whitehead discusses her book on Black ancestry and challenges historical narratives.
What happens when a people labeled as "savages" discover they were always a people of promise? In this powerful conversation, author Jocelyn D. Whitehead returns to People of Distinction to break down her groundbreaking book Savages, Apes, or People of Promise: A Biblical Study of Black Ancestry — dismantling centuries of lies about identity, spirituality, and heritage through a bold biblical lens. This is the conversation that gets whispered in kitchens but never spoken into microphones — until now. Grab your copy at JocelynWhitehead.com, Amazon, or Barnes & Noble, and go read, go grow, and go build.
People in this episode
Host: Al Cole
Guest: Jocelyn D. Whitehead
Topics covered
- Black ancestry
- identity
- spirituality
- heritage
- biblical studies
Keywords
- Black ancestry
- biblical study
- identity
- spirituality
- heritage
- Jocelyn D. Whitehead
Mentioned in this episode
Organizations: JocelynWhitehead.com, Amazon, Barnes & Noble
Books & works: Savages, Apes, or People of Promise: A Biblical Study of Black Ancestry
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