We're looking at the history of watch night, a New Year's Eve tradition for Black Americans that goes back to the Civil War.
The watch service continues a tradition that traces its roots to the night the Emancipation Proclamation was scheduled to ...
Associated Black Charities hosts its annual Revival, urging activists and faith leaders to confront inequities in Black America.
I’M KAREN HOLMES WARD TODAY ON CITYLINE THREE NEW BOOKS THAT DISCUSS THE CHANGING INFLUENCE OF THE BLACK CHURCH, HOW A CONGREGATION HELPED HEAL A COMMUNITY, AND A THEOLOGICAL AND BIOETHICAL APPROACH ...
Black churches across the U.S. are seeing a decline in attendance. “Bedside Baptist Church” members, a term coined to name people who virtually watch church in their bedrooms, became a thing during ...
(NEXSTAR) — The first Black congregations in America pre-date the nation’s founding in 1776. Since then, African American churches continue to support faith, and the fight for Civil Rights across the ...
"For many Black Catholics, the issue is not whether the Church moved to combat racial harm," writes Efran Menny. "But rather ...
Washington — There is so much history between the walls of Metropolitan African Methodist Episcopal Church, which has hosted funerals for Rosa Parks and Frederick Douglass and opened its pews to ...
For the first time, a historic Black church in Champaign — Bethel AME Church — is celebrating the holiday of Kwanzaa. The ...
Macedonia Missionary Baptist Church, Miami’s oldest Black church, plans to build a new addition to accommodate growth in its summer classes to enrich Black students in the West Coconut Grove community ...