Abstract
This essay delineates the context for Cornel West’s Prophesy Deliverance! An Afro-American Revolutionary Christianity.2 This text erupted on the scene in 1982, and its effects reach far into the present. Professor West explored many of the ideas in this seminal project at the House of the Lord Pentecostal Church (hereafter cited as HOLC) in Brooklyn, New York, pastored by Bishop Herbert D. Daughtry, Sr. This article casts light on the model leadership at the HOLC, and how it abetted in social engagement efforts of the Black United Front (a mass-based protest movement), along with other community organizations. This paper concludes by reflecting on the significance of Pentecostalism for Black
nationalist and pan-Africanist social/political activism. In doing so, this article too, analyzes the relationship between a Pentecostal bishop engaged in Black
nationalist and pan-Africanist social/political activism and a Black and democratic socialist Baptist theological academic as they each attempted to live out the meaning of Black theology within their ministry contexts and among the masses as social protest.