Religious leaders from Detroit explore the history and influence of Black religious music. One Detroit contributor Stephen Henderson talks with Rev. Larry Simmons of Baber Memorial AME Church and Dr.

The Smithsonian’s National Museum of African American History and Culture (NMAAHC) is launching a multi-city film screening tour of the documentary film, gOD-Talk: Reimagining Faith in the 21st ...

On a special episode of The Excerpt podcast: This Black History Month we wanted to celebrate the role of Black churches in advancing a more just and progressive society. But why have so many historic ...

Credit: Johnson Publishing Company Archive. Courtesy J. Paul Getty Trust and Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture. The exhibition includes photographs of several ...

This is an archived article and the information in the article may be outdated. Please look at the time stamp on the story to see when it was last updated. Mother Mary Elizabeth Lange — a Black ...

A member of the second-oldest Black Catholic order in the United States. A voodoo priestess. A gay atheist woman. A new documentary from the National Museum of African American History and Culture ...

Since opening its doors on Sept. 24, 2016, the Smithsonian’s National Museum of African American History and Culture (NMAAHC) has served as a place where all Americans can learn about the richness and ...

A new exhibition of rarely seen images and artifacts chronicles the African American religious experience “Spirit in the Dark: Religion in Black Music, Activism and Popular Culture,” (above: Nina ...

Mother Mary Elizabeth Lange — a Black Catholic nun who founded the United States’ first African American religious congregation in Baltimore in 1829 — has advanced another step toward sainthood. Under ...