what many Black folks wore to church is also what they wore to protest, from Black men in three-piece suits and dress shoes to Black women with white dresses or dress suits and a hat, cocked to ...

HOLLIS BOOKER: I would wear my best suit. I would have my shoes ... Easter Sunday is the Sunday that many church congregations look forward to, and for Black women and girls, this is their time ...

Philyaw shares her Brief But Spectacular take on Black women, sex and the Black church. Deesha Philyaw debut short story collection the Secret Lives of Church Ladies was a finalist for the 2020 ...

After not being named a finalist, Marshall Turman sued the church and the search committee for gender discrimination in December 2023. No woman has ever been senior pastor of Abyssinian ...

When it comes to breaking out the Sunday best, no one does it like beautiful Black women ready to worship on Easter Sunday. Church serves as not only a place of refuge and worship for many African ...

YAOUNDÉ, Cameroon – A leading African cardinal says African cultures and “a certain mentality in the Church” have put women in a disadvantaged position. Cardinal Fridolin Ambongo Besungu of ...

There is so much history between the walls of Metropolitan African Methodist Episcopal Church, which has hosted ... from Black women who successfully sued the Ku Klux Klan to lawsuits that pushed ...