Charles Henry Pace: Pioneer of Gospel music rediscovered in Pittsburgh archives
JESSIE WARDARSKI, of Associated Press, reports on efforts to cement the place of African American composer Charles Henry Pace in the history of Gospel music in the US…
US Army makes history promoting Black woman chaplain to colonel
Last update: 10.20am, 9th September (AEST)RNS The US Army has promoted an active-duty African American woman chaplain to the rank of colonel for the first time. Chaplain (Colonel) Monica R Lawson was given the new status in a ceremony streamed live Wednesday on the Facebook page of the US Army Chaplain Center and School. The African Methodist […]
Rev Rolland Slade, first black chair of Southern Baptist executive committee, elected
RNS Rev Rolland Slade, senior pastor of Meridian Baptist Church in El Cajon, California, has been elected as the first African American chairman of the Southern Baptist Convention’s executive committee, the group that runs the business of the nation’s largest Protestant denomination outside its annual meetings. He was elected unanimously. Rev Rolland Slade in October, […]
ESSAY: SEVEN LESSONS FROM ‘HIDDEN FIGURES’ NASA MATHEMATICIAN KATHERINE JOHNSON’S LIFE AND CAREER
In an article first published on The Conversation, DELLA DUMBAUGH, professor of mathematics at the University of Richmond in the US, reflects on the life of Katherine John, who died this month at the age of 101…
Play about first African American priest in the US highlights current issues
Pasadena, California, USRNS Actor Jim Coleman stood at the front of a dimly lit stage and recounted the joys and hardships of being a black man of Catholic faith. As the star of the play Tolton: From Slave to Priest, Coleman was portraying the life of Rev Augustus Tolton, the first known African American to […]
ESSAY: THE RUBY WOO PILGRIMAGE – HEAR THE PULPITS ROAR
US Christian activist and author, LISA SHARON HARPER, in an article which comes via Religion News Service, reflects on the background to a pilgrimage she just completed to landmarks in women’s and African-American history…