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Pew is publishing a major study on African Americans’ attitudes towards religion on Tuesday, the same day PBS premieres a two-part special on the history of the Black church.
A Black church coalition is walking back its call for MSNBC to suspend and investigate Rev. Al Sharpton after his nonprofit accepted $500,000 in donations from Vice President Kamala Harris ...
The Black church has never been about exclusion. It has never been “Black only.” Instead, it has been unapologetically Black, standing in the truth that Christianity must confront injustice ...
The Black church has long played a significant role in supporting faith and the fight for Civil Rights in America, with its origins dating back to the first African American congregations in the ...
The Black church “has been shilling for the Democratic Party, which is why you see a lot of Black men moving away,” said Ali, a Trump supporter.
Dr. Rev. Gardner, the senior pastor at Plum Grove Baptist Church in Tuscaloosa, Alabama, said that even while young people move away from the church, it remains an epicenter to Black life.
The church can seize money the Proud Boys make through merchandise sales. And the congregation has begun to sell lookalike shirts on its website with lines like “Stay Proud, Stay Black.” It ...
In 1786, Richard Allen, a free Black man, began preaching to other free Black people at the St. George’s Church, an antislavery, white Methodist church in Philadelphia.
In February, after the Proud Boys didn’t pay, the court gave the church use of the group’s name and symbols — seen on its black-and-yellow gear and laurel wreath logo.
A historic Black church just won the rights to the ‘Proud Boys’ name. Metropolitan African Methodist Episcopal Church can now seize any proceeds the far-right group makes using the name.
A historic Black church took the Proud Boys to court. Now it controls their trademark A judge awarded the Metropolitan African Methodist Episcopal Church $2.8 million in damages in 2023 ...
A judge has awarded a historic Black church in Washington control over the Proud Boys trademark after the far-right group defaulted on a $2.8 million judgment.