John Thomas was a World War I vet hired 100 years ago in 1924 at Broadway Baptist Church. He was a janitor at the all-white ...

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.

Congregants at the historic Durham, North Carolina, church cooled themselves with fans reading “Black voters matter.” Speakers wearing “VOTE” T-shirts stood at a lectern draped in African ...

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 ...

Former members who have been "excommunicated" from a Tucson church "cult" say the church prevents them from attending the ...

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 ...

“The women of The View dressed in all black funeral attire,” one viewer pointed out on X/Twitter. “The ladies coming out in all black, dressed for a funeral is very fitting. RIP Americ ...

Now new analysis seen by Newsweek shows that Harris' task has been made more difficult by the decline in church attendance by young Black men in America. The Democrats have long enjoyed and relied ...