Charles Waddell Chesnutt would hardly qualify as a representative of late-19th-century Black experience. Born in 1858 in Ohio to parents who had been free people of color in Fayetteville, North ...

Q: I am doing the Bible in a year with Father Schmitz. I am trying to understand how the story of Ham who saw his father naked was interpreted to involve incest? A: My questioner this week brings up ...

Hexes and jinxes, maledictions, imprecations, anathema, damnation, fukú. Avada Kedavra, cursed be Canaan, Macbeth, “good luck” and screw you. Curses are versatile fictions, foundational to myth and ...

Slavery and the biblical curse of Ham. In Noah’s Curse, Stephen Haynes provides an in-depth look at how the oft-cited biblical “curse of Ham” or “curse of Canaan” was used in the American South to ...

The Book of Genesis records an instance of Noah cursing his son Ham's descendants to be slaves. Although there is no biblical evidence that Ham was the "father" of African peoples, various Jewish, ...