On Sunday mornings in Brooklyn, nicknamed the borough of churches, the muffled sounds of choir singers, hand‑claps and Hammond organs can be heard from the sidewalks. The borough still has a church on ...

When Justina Taylor Miles broke the internet signing Rihanna’s 2023 Super Bowl performance, she wasn’t just interpreting — she was continuing a tradition of Black American Sign Language. On Sunday ...

WASHINGTON (RNS) — “Lift Every Voice and Sing” is a hymn many African Americans of older generations just know. They’d sung it in church, learned it in school and stood for what is dubbed the ...

The discussion around Maverick City Music highlights how commercial success and congregational value are two different things. Since its first album in 2019, Maverick City Music has been both praised ...

Nature, in her bounty, has provided an endless supply of things for the right and the left to argue about. Big things, like the annexation of Greenland. Little things — like a song. "Lift Every Voice ...

(NEXSTAR) — The first Black congregations in America pre-date the nation’s founding in 1776. Since then, African American churches continue to support faith, and the fight for Civil Rights across the ...

This is an archived article and the information in the article may be outdated. Please look at the time stamp on the story to see when it was last updated. The first Black congregations in America pre ...