Black liberation theology and Obama's church

The New Yorker has an interesting piece by Kelefa Sanneh on Barack Obama's family church in Chicago (read it here) and the impact of the Jeremiah Wright controversy on the church.

The article includes this assessment from James Cones, doyen of the black liberation theology movement in the United States: "Cone calls Trinity “the best representation” of black liberation theology. “It’s offensive, because it speaks the truth in harsh, blunt terms,” he says. Yet, after all those years of talking and organizing and agitating, Wright became black liberation theology’s most famous exponent a few weeks after he stepped aside, during a period when, for perhaps the first time in his adult life, he wasn’t holding forth on anything at all."