Essay: Black religious leaders are up front and central in US protests – as they have been for the last 200 years
In an article first published on The Conversation, LAWRENCE BURNLEY, ordained minister and historian, looks at the role religious leaders have – and are – playing in the struggle for liberation and racial justice for black Americans…
“He is going to change the world”: Funeral held for George Floyd in Houston
Houston, USAP George Floyd was fondly remembered Tuesday as “Big Floyd” – a father and brother, athlete and neighborhood mentor, and now a catalyst for change – at a funeral for the black man whose death has sparked a global reckoning over police brutality and racial prejudice. More than 500 mourners wearing masks against the […]
In the US, Black church leaders push for census participation despite coronavirus
RNS Community of Hope African Methodist Episcopal Church in Maryland is switching gears as it promotes the need for African Americans to fill out the 2020 census form in the midst of the coronavirus pandemic. The Prince George’s County congregation had planned to hold block parties with other churches in the Washington metropolitan area to […]