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The Sunday streets of the borough of churches still vibrate with gospel chords, yet inside many of Brooklyn’s storied Black ...
The Black church has long played a significant role in supporting faith and the fight for Civil Rights in America, with its origins dating back to the first African American congregations in the ...
CBS2's Steve Overmyer takes us inside a historic safe haven. A spot underneath Plymouth Church in Brooklyn was part of the path to freedom -- a station on the Underground Railroad -- 170 years ago.
The fact that the church parking lots are full on Saturdays is proof of the awesome power that institution still has in the black community. It is also a strong indication that regardless of the ...
PHILADELPHIA (CBS) — When a Germantown church needed to renovate, it took the opportunity to rethink its artwork to better reflect its community. On the walls inside St. Vincent de Paul Roman ...
A historic Black church in downtown Memphis that was the organizing point for Martin Luther King Jr.’s final campaign in 1968 caught fire early Monday morning and suffered significant damage.
2. Connecting Space is King "After worship, church is a social center," says Dave Wilde. The church lobby (or narthex for traditionalists) no longer serves as merely an anteroom to the sanctuary.
A fire that severely damaged a historic Black church that served as the headquarters for a 1968 sanitation workers’ strike, which brought the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. The fire at Clayborn ...
According to Pew Research Center data, between 2019 and 2023, Black Protestant monthly church attendance fell from 61% to 46% — the largest decline among major U.S. religious groups.
Brooklyn’s Black church choirs persist amid attendance decline, gentrification The Sunday streets of the borough of churches still vibrate with gospel chords, yet inside many of Brooklyn’s ...