Black Buddhists and the Black Radical Tradition: The Practice of Stillness in the Movement for Liberation by Rima Vesely-Flad
NYU Press, 2022 344 pages; $30
GROWING UP IN A SMALL TOWN in North Carolina in the 1970s, religion meant church, and church meant one thing: the experience that emanated from a small, worn building in my community. There, we would gather once weekly, freshly bathed and in our best clothes and shiniest shoes, take our seats on wooden benches sagging under the weight of decades of lamentation and supplication, sing together, shake hands across
