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"""The significance of this unique book cannot be overstated. From a prison cell in North Carolina, Chavis' theological reflections reveal a penetrating analysis of both the socio-historical reality of black America and other oppressed people and the liberating faith that sustains one in the struggle for freedom."" --James H. Cone ""Dr. Benjamin F. Chavis Jr. continues to be a respected freedom fighter and this book reveals Chavis' passion for equal justice for all people in America and throughout the world. Psalms from Prison is a living testimony of how a political prisoner in North Carolina broke the chains of racist unjust incarceration."" -- Attorney Ben Crump, Black America's Attorney General ""When Ben Chavis was falsely accused and incarcerated, the Psalms set him free even in the mist of captivity. Anyone who cares about love and justice would do well to walk with Dr. Chavis through the pages of this book and reflect upon its theological framework. Psalms From Prison comes out of lived experience and is necessary applied theology for our time."" -- Rev. Dr. William J. Barber, II, Founding Director of the Center for Public Theology and Public Policy at Yale Divinity School and President, Repairers of the Breach"

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Benjamin F. Chavis, Jr., has traveled a long road in the work of civil rights, serving in executive leadership for the United Church of Christ's Commission of Racial Justice in the 1970s and '80s, for the NAACP and the Million Man March in the 1990s, and more recently for multi-media corporations. Currently Dr. Chavis is the president and CEO of the National Newspaper Publishers Association.

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