Hubert Locke is a professor and Dean Emeritus at the UW Evans School of Public Affairs.  He specializes in urban affairs, law and justice. He is author and editor of several books and numerous chapters in publications dealing with race, criminal justice, religion and public policy. This lecture discusses how heterogeneous and multifaceted black religion is in America and the black church as a nation within a nation- the economic, social, political and educational life of black Americans during the slave era and after Emancipation. The last part of the lecture discusses the impact on the current national election. From the Series:Luce Public Lectures in Global Religion and Human Security