The Black church

No pillar of the African American community has been more central to its history, identity, and social justice vision than the Black church. THE BLACK CHURCH: This Is Our Story, This Is Our Song (on sale February 16) is a tender and magisterial history from Henry Louis Gates, Jr., New York Times bestselling author and one of our most important voices on the African American experience. […]

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