The church in the Southern Black community An introduction to the church in the southern Black community. By Laurie F. Maffly-Kipp  Associate Professor of Religious Studies University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill - May 2001      The collection of documents brought together in this project begins to tell the story of the growth of Protestant religion among African Americans during the 19th century, and o ...

Matthew Gaines, Black senator and Baptist preacher, was born on Aug. 4, 1840, to a slave mother on the plantation of Martin G. Despallier in Pineville, near Alexandria, La. ...

Rev. Sharpton is there to do battle on behalf of those who are disenfranchised and powerless. ...

Findlay reveals the widespread participation of the predominantly white churches in the efforts moving toward Black freedom that continued throughout the ‘60s ...

Recognizing that God had work for him to complete in this vineyard, God’s still small voice ...

Black liberation theology is a theological perspective found in some Christian churches and the Nation of Islam in the United States which contextualizes liberation theology in an attempt to help African-Americans overcome oppression ...

The term “the Black church” evolved from the phrase “the Negro church,” the title of a pioneering sociological study of African American Protestant churches ...

[caption id="attachment_7602" align="alignleft" width="267"] Sojourner Truth[/caption] Sojourner Truth, travelling preacher Taking from Web     The woman we know as Sojourner Truth was born into slavery in New York as Isabella Baumfree (after her father’s owner, Baumfree). She was sold several times, and while owned by the John Dumont family in Ulster County, married Thomas, another of Dumont’s slaves. She ...

He is an advocate for Black interests, and a critic of American society. ...

Today the spirit of justice was awakened in the capitol of North Carolina. Governor Beverly Perdue signed a Pardon of Innocence for nine men and one woman known as ‘The Wilmington 10. ...