Touchstones of Democracy: African American Thought Advancing Democracy

As part of UVA Karsh Institute's "Touchstones of Democracy" series, professors Melvin Rogers (Brown University) and Lawrie Balfour (UVA) examine Rogers’ new book, 'The Darkened Light of Faith: Race, Democracy, and Freedom in African American Political Thought'—exploring how thinkers’ “light of faith” was darkened but not extinguished by slavery.