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James Cone: Father of Black Liberation Theology[col. writ. 4/29/18] © ’18 Mumia Abu-Jamal James Cone was a small man, as in short of stature; but he was great in mind as a theologian and scholar.And after the emergence of the Black Freedom Movement of the ‘60s, he shocked the world with his seminal work Black Theology, where he wrote; “God is Black.” Professor Cone wasn’t the first to say that, for, decades before he did so, scholar Arthur Huff Fauset wrote Black Gods of the Metropolis,published originally in 1944, detailing Black religious movements in US Northern ghettoes. Professor Cone’s work, enlightened by the Black Freedom movement, led him to write:            God is black…There is no place in black theology for a colorless God in a society where human beings suffer precisely because of their color. The blackness of God means that God has made the oppressed condition God’s own condition. James Hal Cone, author: A Black Theology of Liberation, 2nd ed. (1986) Cone’s ideas came to fruition in Black Chris