Browsing: 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