The conference theme for PBOS XVII will be Struggle in the House of Life: Equality, Education, and Economic Empowerment
We will convene Oct. 22-23, 2010 at Austin Community College (Austin, TX) at the Multipurpose Hall of the Eastview Campus.
A block of rooms has been reserved at the Super 8 Motel (Austin Central) for $95 per night [...]

Philosophy Born of Struggle 2009
I would like to express my profound thanks to Professor Blanche Radford Curry and the Fayetteville State University Community for hosting the Sixteenth Philosophy Born of Struggle Conference and particularly the members of the philosophy faculty for their remarkable contribution in making the [...]

Deadline for abstracts extended to Aug. 31
Sixteenth Annual Conference
October 23 & 24, 2009
Race, Religion, and Social Transformation
Fayetteville State University and Fayetteville Technical Community College
Fayetteville, North Carolina
The Sixteenth Annual Philosophy Born of Struggle Conference will address a variety of approaches to religion in contemporary society and particularly the interconnections between race, religious practices, and [...]

Alain L. Locke: The Biography of a Philosopher
By Leonard Harris and Charles Molesworth
University of Chicago Press
432 pp. $45

Reviewed by Carlin Romano
Inquirer Book Critic
When Philadelphia-born Alain L. Locke (1885-1954), the first African American to win a Rhodes Scholarship, wrote home to his mother shortly after beginning undergraduate life at Harvard, he didn’t exactly express solidarity with [...]

Alain L. Locke: Biography of a Philosopher Leonard Harris and Charles Molesworth. Univ. of Chicago, $45 (400p) ISBN 978-0-226-31776-2
Philosophy professor Harris and English professor Molesworth fuse disciplines in this groundbreaking study of Locke (1885–1954), the preeminent African-American aesthetician and philosopher in the years between WWI and WWII, most familiar as the editor of the New [...]

“I thank everyone for your kind condolences. The Grant family and I will carry on. My son-in-law and two granddaughters have a mighty legacy by virtue how Jamila lived her all to short life. Your kind support and words of encouragement will help us carry on in high spirits.”
–Leonard Harris (September 6, [...]