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The Black church (sometimes termed Black Christianity or African American Christianity) is the faith and body of Christian denominations and congregations in the United States that predominantly minister to, and are also led by African Americans, [1] as well as these churches' collective traditions and members.
Smith, R. Drew, ed. Long March ahead: African American churches and public policy in post-civil rights America (2004). Sobel, M. Trabelin' On: The Slave Journey to an Afro-Baptist Faith (1979) Southern, Eileen. The Music of Black Americans: A History (1997) Spencer, Jon Michael. Black hymnody: a hymnological history of the African-American ...
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The Big Bethel Methodist Episcopal Church is one of 31 churches in the United States that have been selected in 2024 for a $4 million preservation grant from the African American Cultural Heritage ...
The Black Catholic Movement (or Black Catholic Revolution) was a movement of African-American Catholics in the United States that developed and shaped modern Black Catholicism. From roughly 1968 to the mid-1990s, Black Catholicism would transform from pre- Vatican II roots into a full member of the Black Church .
The Black church was both an expression of community and unique African-American spirituality, and a reaction to discrimination. The churches also served as neighborhood centers where free Black people could celebrate their African heritage without intrusion from white detractors.
Nearly 300 Black churches in Florida are offering Black history lessons in response to Gov. Ron DeSantis’ effort to limit how race and other subjects are taught in schools.
What most African Americans would identify today as "gospel" began in the early 20th century. The gospel music that Thomas A. Dorsey, Sallie Martin, Willie Mae Ford Smith and other pioneers popularized had its roots in the blues as well as in the more freewheeling forms of religious devotion of "Sanctified" or "Holiness" churches—sometimes called "holy rollers" by other denominations — who ...