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As Black churches increasingly move beyond the pulpit into economic development, a small group of high-profile pastors—many tied to the prosperity gospel tradition—illustrate how faith, media, and business ventures have converged to build multimillion-dollar ministries […]

By Erick Johnson Rev. Jesse L. Jackson, Sr., was honored by Rev. Dr. David R. Peoples, President of PNBC, during its 64th Annual Session. (Photo by Roy Lewis) (Chicago Crusader) Weeks after Target Corporation infuriated Blacks […]

Photo caption: REV. JESSE L. JACKSON, SR. (seated at microphone) is pictured with Bishop Tavis Grant on Saturday, July 8, 2023 as he announces he will be stepping down as president of the Rainbow PUSH Coalition […]

The National Black Church Initiative, a coalition of 34,000 African American and Latino churches working to eradicate racial disparities, has urged leaders of churches in their network to “respect the science” of the new coronavirus […]

A Black professor at a Christian university in Phoenix has been suspended after a video clip revealed him making troubling remarks about activists in the Black Lives Matter movement. Professor Toby Jennings, of Grand Canyon […]

  by Adelle Banks WASHINGTON (RNS) — From Protestant preachers to Jewish cantors to Catholic nuns, religious leaders of a range of faiths demonstrated in the nation’s capital for racial justice, criticizing the silence of […]

  Charleston (SC) – After decades of fighting racism through peace, Emanuel AME Church is poised for world recognition after a group of Chicago officials led an effort to nominate the church to receive the […]

By Jazelle Hunt NNPA Washington Correspondent WASHINGTON (NNPA) – Flanked by images of the nine men and women at Emanuel A.M.E. Church in Charleston, S.C., and the four little girls killed in the 1963 bombing […]

MEGHAN KENEALLY Digital Reporter Police are investigating whether a fire at a predominantly Black church in North Carolina is a hate crime, authorities have said. A blaze was reported at the Briar Creek Road Baptist […]