Duke University’s Office of Black Church Studies announced a $5 million gift from the Duke Endowment on Oct. 3 to recruit and support a senior faculty member in the university’s Divinity School.
It was the most apparent when he died and more than 1100 Blacks and Whites filled the sanctuary for his funeral. “Which is ...
This is part of the gift Walter R. Strickland II presents to readers in Swing Low, his massive new treatment of the Black church in America. Strickland’s groundbreaking book amplifies a story we ...
Vice President Harris made campaign stops at Black churches in Georgia over the weekend, days after sparking controversy among Christian Americans by telling protesters praising Jesus "you're at ...
Andrew Loza, who left the church ... Dawn funerals, was at South Lawn Cemetery, 5401 S. Park Ave. Silva decided to attend, he said, even though he had become one of his family’s “black sheep.” ...
In her adulthood, she has maintained ties to the Black church and its tradition of political organizing. But though she peppers her speeches and interviews with references to Scripture ...
When people gather for a funeral of a Divine Nine member at a Black church, prior to the hymns and the eulogy, as Haynes put it, “there is a ceremony that helps to celebrate the life and usher ...
Harvey, a 53-year-old Black woman whose birthday was one day before Harris', said the vice president's visit to the New Birth Baptist Church in Stonecrest, Georgia, could help her find older Black ...
Ryon Price.It’s a journey that began quite literally in black and white. Price started digging into it shortly after he took ...