[2] She earned a Master of Divinity from Pacific School of Religion and completed her PhD in Old Testament at Princeton Theological Seminary.
Jarena Lee was a Black Christian preacher denied ordination in the 1800s and who, in 2016, was posthumously ordained by the African Methodist Episcopal Church.
"[15] A collaboration between Nyasha Junior and Jeremy Schipper, Black Samson: The Untold Story of an American Icon was published July 1, 2020.
The book details how the Biblical character Samson was a figure used to represent individuals who would fight for racial equality in America.
Detailing how Samson from Judges 13-16 became a central figure for Black Americans and was used in literature and other means of social revolution to discuss racial inequality in the United States.
Wells, James Baldwin, Malcolm X and Martin Luther King Jr.[16] Junior and Schipper explore the connection between Biblical narratives and their importance in Black American history in an attempt to bridge the gap between the two subjects.
English New Testament Scholar Candida Moss has said in a Daily Beast review that the book by "researching previously ignored first-person narratives of enslaved and formerly enslaved people, newspaper articles, modern media, and poetry, they argue that the ambiguities in the Samson story make him an interesting and complicated figure with which to think about race and modes of resisting injustice.