Religion

St. Paul Community Baptist Church in Brooklyn holds an annual event called The MAAFA to commemorate the suffering of enslaved Africans and to promote healing and discussion on current issues of pain and deprivation.

The church can be more helpful in the grief process by being realistic about the fact that loss and death are parts of life, and by providing tools and support for those experiencing grief.

The COVID-19 pandemic has caused a decline in in-person worship services, with only 2 in 5 Americans regularly participating in church services and 37% of Black Protestants saying they join services both in person and virtually.

The Democratic National Convention featured several speakers who intertwined faith, Black church traditions and politics, with Senator Raphael Warnock delivering a powerful speech that compared voting to a prayer and praised the leadership of Vice President Kamala Harris and Tim Walz.

Sen. Raphael Warnock of Georgia used his moment on the national stage at the Democratic National Convention to speak of the shared humanity and transcendent nature of our collective future, emphasizing the need to vote like it depends on it.

Rev. Lisa Yerby-Bryson founded Praising Through Recovery, a faith-based addiction recovery program, to help women deal with and recover from addiction, drawing on her own experiences of substance abuse, incarceration, and a crisis of faith.

by Rev. Dorothy S. Boulware Modern grandparents seem to customize their titles, not preferring the grandma and grandpa of the past. Some want to be called...

The Justice League of Greater Lansing Michigan has raised over $400,000 for reparations scholarships to address the racial wealth gap, awarding $5,000 scholarships to 10 college-bound high school grads based on their essays examining the racial wealth gap and its effects on their families.

Black Church PAC hosted a virtual call on August 5 with 16,000 faith leaders, raising over $500,000 for Vice President Kamala Harris' presidential campaign and pledging their support for her agenda of justice, freedom, and inclusion.

Religious leaders from various faiths gathered in front of the Supreme Court in Washington, D.C. to demand justice and call for equality in pay, housing, voting rights, public safety, and health care.