However, when Curenton arrived at Mayflower to serve the congregation and the community, he did so knowing that parts of Mayflower’s history hardly resembled the Black Church tradition. “ ...

Knox News sat with Kesler to talk about what’s ahead for Beck, for Knoxville and for Knoxville’s Black Church (the group, not a singular congregation). Much of the discussion centered on the ...

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 ...

The Rev. Otis Moss III leads the congregation at Trinity United Church of Christ on Chicago’s South Side. They’re well known for playing an active role in addressing the issues Black people face ...

(JTA) — The first African-American female rabbi will leave her congregation this summer. Rabbi Alysa Stanton’s contract with Congregation Bayt Shalom in Greenville, N.C., was not renewed ...

Jones Tabernacle CME Church is continuing a decades long tradition of celebrating Black history ... "The whole congregation works together as a team," she said. "We start early, choose a theme ...

During the 2022–2023 academic year, Duke Divinity School celebrated the 50th anniversary of the founding of the Office of Black Church Studies, with a year of events culminating in an evening ...

according to the Pendleton Foundation for Black History and Culture. Although the original building still stands, the Silver Springs Baptist Church congregation now meets in a new building on ...

Still, members of the Harlem community hope to revitalize the church. The church, which had been hit with an increase in rent between November and December, was vacated by its decade-long congregation ...

A former church building will be the site of a Black History Month event hosted by Norman Public Schools, in partnership with the Norman Philharmonic. Evelyn Kwanza, Norman Public Schools' director of ...