The shooter, Dylann Roof, then 22, sat in the Bible study group with his victims for about an hour in the basement of the ...

In newly formed Black congregations, the famous abolitionist and others were able to live out their faith—and affirm their ...

Firebrand Rep. Jasmine Crockett defended former President Joe Biden’s mental acuity and argued that his cognition was ...

Igrew up in a Black church. There are scenes from those sacred Sundays that set the foundation for my politics. At times, ...

Journalist Kevin Sack explores the subversive role forgiveness played by the Black church in resisting oppression.

Malcolm Graham says that his sister’s body was still in the morgue when he noticed that people were rallying around the ...

From the pulpit of Jefferson Street Methodist Church, Rev. Will Wilkerson spoke to an audience on Monday that extended beyond ...

Tim Grant is comforted during a prayer vigil on June 22, 2015 at the Charleston Southern University for the victims of the Emanuel African Methodist Episcopal Church mass shooting where nine ...

It is featured in over 40 different Christian hymnals and sung in churches all across America, not just during Black History ...

CHARLESTON, South Carolina — June 17 marks 10 years since a deadly mass shooting at Mother Emanuel African Methodist Episcopal ... as the African Church, that dates all the way back to 1818.

An exterior view of the Emanuel A.M.E. Church in Charleston, South Carolina, the church is the oldest African Methodist ...