INTELLECTUALS THE YEAR OF 2016 TEXT JAVON WILSON IMAGES JAYSON OVERBY, JR.
HASSAN XAVIER HENDERSON-LOTT Hassan Xavier Henderson-Lott is a senior, religion major. He owes his intellectual prowess to the Martin Luther King Jr. Chapel Assistant Program, a co-curricular program that fits religion into social issues affecting the world. The program cultivates moral leaders for a cosmopolitan world. Growing up as queer boy, he had a discomforting and awkward experience. Lott desired to make white people content but also had to deal with the offense his queerness made in church. He began to understand the stigmas placed on him, it caused him to develop an academic inferiority complex.
“Anyone who finds that something—whatever it may be—that causes them to wonder and seeks to discover the fundamental essence of their [wonders] is an intellectual” said Lott
Lott became a scholar and intellectual at Morehouse. He engages in the concerns of LGBT community theologically. Lott is researching and exploring the condemnation of trans-persons in Christian theological faith.
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