The church’s (white) trustees purchased the property, erected a building, and operated it as a “mission church” ministering to the island’s enslaved population, said Roy Collins III, who ...

The Black church is the backbone of the African American community. In addition to its spiritual function, churches provide social services including education, employment, political mobilization ...

Journalist Kevin Sack explores the subversive role forgiveness played by the Black church in resisting oppression. advertisement. Time. Remembering the Mother Emanuel Church Shooting 10 Years Later.

In an African-American, low-income community, about one third of the residents attend church regularly. Church attendance was associated with multiple positive health care practices. Those who ...

WASHINGTON, D.C. (7News) — Union Temple Baptist Church in Southeast D.C. unveiled a new portrait of Bayard Rustin on Sunday. Rustin was an openly gay, civil rights activist and strategist.

Kevin Sack chronicles the Charleston, S.C., congregation that was the target of a brutal 2015 hate crime, and the church’s central role in the larger saga of the South.

MEMPHIS, Tenn. — Several foundations have donated $1.5 million to help rebuild after arson gutted a historic Black church in Memphis, Tenn., that played an important role in the civil rights ...