Michael G. Datcher, clinical assistant professor of English at Loyola Marymount University in Los Angeles, co-edited Tough Love: The Life and Death of Tupac Shakur (BlackWords Inc., 1996). He can discuss criticism of rap music and of the hiphop ethos.

Dancer Jessica Ralph, a member of the National Baptist Convention USA, directs workshops using hiphop, liturgical dance and other art forms in a religious context. She is a member of the World Council of Churches’ transformation team, a group with varied backgrounds and talents who lead classes and workshops.

Adoptive Families magazine calls itself the leading adoption information source for families before, during, and after adoption.

Marcyliena Morgan is a professor in the department of African and African American studies at Harvard University and author of Language, Discourse and Power in African American Culture (Cambridge University Press, 2006). She founded the Hiphop Archive at the W.E.B. Du Bois Institute at Harvard University while on the faculty there. She now directs the Hiphop Archive@Stanford University and is working […]

Read a tribute for Christopher Hitchens from the American Humanist Association.

At The Daily Beast, Andrew Sullivan, a Catholic, wrote a post about his dying friend Christopher Hitchens.

At The American Conservative, Rod Dreher wrote about suffering and conversion in response to Mark Judge’s Dec. 8, 2011, column on Christopher Hitchens.

Read a post at First Things by Wesley Smith that criticizes Mark Judge’s prediction that Christopher Hitchens would convert to Christianity.

Read a controversial column in The Daily Caller by Mark Judge reflecting on Christopher Hitchens’ final column for Vanity Fair.