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A slew of black Big Apple residents fumed Friday over mayoral front-runner Zohran Mamdani’s claim on an Ivy League college ...
On the anniversary of America’s independence, the abolitionist leader Frederick Douglass made a biblical Psalm – Psalm 137 – ...
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It’s incorrect to say that simply because people belonged to the same church, they agreed with one another, writes.
Five years ago, on July 4, 2020, the country was in the midst of waves of rioting. The proximate cause, the match that lit the fire, was the death of a black man, a violent ex-convict, on May 25, with ...
A volunteer searching the archives of the American Baptist in Massachusetts has found a nearly 180-year-old document shedding ...
The values prevailing from the American Revolution were visible when Christians lined up to attend Kentucky's first synagogue dedication in 1849.
Religion has intersected with race throughout American history, and many of the best new books in the field focus on Black Americans’ religious witness. From building churches to creating art and ...
The U.S. was beginning to come to terms with racial injustice when the “great white Christian freakout” ushered in the era of ...
History does not start in the middle it starts at the beginning as we know it. Including all cultures, ethnicities, sexes, religions and points of view. Truth must be told and not hidden any more.
Some Black churches are pledging to support the National Museum of African American History and Culture following an executive order by President Donald Trump alleging exhibits there and at other ...
The African American museum, one of 21 Smithsonian museums, has also seen a recent shake-up in leadership. Shanita Beckett, who was previously the head of operations at the museum, has been widely ...