Author: Carma Henry

Congresswoman Frederica Wilson was sworn in to office for her second term in the U.S. House of Representatives.

In what civil rights leaders across the nation are calling a significant moment in the civil rights movement, North Carolina Gov. Beverly Perdue has granted individual pardons of actual innocence to all members of the Wilmington 10.

NAACP leaders such as Rev. Joe Darby and Benjamin Jealous have accused Scott of being insensitive to the needs of the Black cause in America

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…

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