When we narrate the history of the church from the perspective of Black nuns,” says historian Shannen Dee Williams, “myths ...

Cardinal Wilton D. Gregory, apostolic administrator of The Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Washington and the first and only African American Cardinal, observed Black History Month by serving as guest ...

Black history runs through Kathe Hambricks' veins. As a young child growing up, her uncle pastored a large South Central Los ...

There are many influential African Americans in US History. Many have stood up against slavery, segregation and racial legacy ...

Shannon Sanders, an African-American South Nashville native and award-winning BMI executive director of creative, reflects on ...

Thomas Professor of Africana Religious Studies at Harvard Divinity ... which is dedicated to preserving and sharing African American history and culture in East Tennessee – will engage in ...

Building on his earlier classic work, Evangelicals and Politics in Antebellum America, Carwardine observes that the Whigs, ...

After three years in Memphis, I went to Trinity Evangelical Divinity School north of Chicago. I soon noticed there were fewer than ten Black students from the United States. I was very excited to be ...

As local school districts brace for potential changes, the University of Tennessee at Martin aims to amplify the voices of ...

Mwatabu Okantah was at Kent State when Black History Month was first celebrated. He reflects on the groundwork laid and why ...

“African American history is at the center of modern American ... complicity or a need to apologize” based on their race, religion, gender or background. The effort grew into a broader ...

The Black church has long played a significant role in supporting faith and the fight for Civil Rights in America, with its ...