The Chicago church where Emmett Till's funeral was held, along with a few other Black historic sites, will officially be preserved as such with grant funding of more than $3 million.

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A 17-year-old Georgia girl will spend four years in juvenile detention for plotting to attack a historic Black church. 

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Parishioners at the True Cornerstone Church on Halls Mill Road in Mobile, Alabama are shocked and saddened after the news that a local pastor, Elder Ulysses Woodward is dead in an attempted murder-suicide at their church last week. Sign Up For Our Newsletter! The tragedy occurred after prophetess Alisha Woodard served up a powerful message, friends say. […]

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A white pastor has been chosen to lead a Black church in Fort Worth after the longtime pastor died in August. Rev. Robert Rogers founded and led Harvey Avenue Baptist Church for 53 years before his passing over the summer, NBC.com reports. “When God gets ready to take you home, you got to go,” said 77-year-old church […]

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A white pastor has been chosen to lead a Black church in Fort Worth after the longtime pastor died in August. Rev. Robert Rogers founded and led Harvey Avenue Baptist Church for 53 years before his passing over the summer, NBC.com reports. “When God gets ready to take you home, you got to go,” said 77-year-old church […]

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OPELOUSAS, La. (AP) — The white suspect in three recent arson fires that destroyed African American churches in Louisiana is scheduled for a bond hearing. The clerk of court’s office in St. Landry Parish says the hearing for 21-year-old Holden Matthews is scheduled for Monday morning before state District Judge James Doherty. Matthews, the son […]

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90’s singer Tweet wants y’all to know that she is totally over the Black church, and she hit up social media to explain what exactly has got her so heated. As noted by The YBF, it seems her daughter Shenice shares her frustration, as the two had a one-on-one discussion on Instagram Live about shady church business. “I’m not […]

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Lady Mae (Lynn Whitfield) is bringing down the hammer on everyone except her old buddy, best friend Maxine Patterson (Pattie LaBelle) who drops into Calvary to pay a visit. They have some tricks up their sleeve on how to keep Mae in the church, or even RUNNING the church without Bishop (Keith David) as the […]

Little Known Black History Facts

  The Rev. Florence Spearing Randolph was one of the first Black women ordained as to preach and lead an African Methodist Episcopal Zion church. Rev. Randolph used her position in the pulpit to call out racism, gender inequality, and other issues related to social reform. Florence Spearing Randolph was born in August 1866 in […]

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Each semester I greet the students who file into my preaching class at Howard University with a standard talk. The talk is not an overview of the basics – techniques of sermon preparation or sermon delivery, as one might expect. Outlining the basics is not particularly difficult. The greatest challenge, in fact, is helping learners […]

A Georgia-based Black Lives Matter activist and pastor, Jomo Kenyatta Johnson plans a new church that will try to appeal specifically to Black men. In fact, the church will be called just that – Church For Black Men. Johnson goal is to bring more Black men into church to alleviate the fact that many Black […]

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In two weeks we’ll be saying bye to 2017 and hello to 2018. Time to bring in those new year resolutions and maybe do things differently than what you’ve been doing. One praise practitioner is getting us excited for our new selves. Check them out below. https://www.instagram.com/p/BczyJmag1OX/?hl=en&taken-by=mr_anthony2you