Prominent Black church in New York sued for gender bias by woman who sought to be its senior pastor
United StatesAP Over its 215-year history, the Abyssinian Baptist Church in New York City has earned a reputation as the flagship of the Black church in America. Based in Harlem, it became a famous megachurch with the political rise of Rev Adam Clayton Powell, Jr, perhaps the most influential of the many men who have […]
Calvin Butts, leader of Harlem’s historic Abyssinian Baptist Church, dies at 73
United StatesRNS Rev Calvin O. Butts III, the senior pastor of New York’s historic Abyssinian Baptist Church, who followed in the footsteps of prominent Black ministers and paved his own path of leadership in education, health and political circles, died on Friday, his church announced. “It is with profound sadness, we announce the passing of […]
Sight-Seeing: Why today is the right time to protest
Against the backdrop of widespread protests over the death of George Floyd and racism in the US, Sight contributor CHRISTOPHER GILBERT reflects on his own experience while living in the US in the late 1990s and early 2000s…
POSTCARDS: THE DANCING SALVATION ARMY BELL RINGER OF BROADWAY
MICAH DANNEY, in an article first published on Religion Unplugged, speaks with the Salvation Army’s “secret weapon” in New York City, Lieutenant Chaka Watch…
US SLAVERY ANNIVERSARY: FROM NEW YORK TO ALABAMA, BLACKS WORSHIPPED IN OWN SPACES BEFORE ABOLITION
As the US marks the 400th anniversary of the forced arrival of African slaves in Virginia, ADELLE M BANKS, writing for Religion News Service, reports on how black communities gathered in their own churches in the years before the official abolition of slavery…