(RNS) — Released during or close to Black History Month, the books provide a faith-oriented look at African American history and analyses of women in ministry and changing demographics and technology.

While a time to honor the resurrection of Jesus Christ, according to Biblical accounts, Easter Sunday is also a gathering of ...

Gospel music and faith have long been a part of Black culture in the U.S. From hymns that would be sung on slavery fields to anthems of the civil rights movement, gospel has been there. Adeerya ...

The music we hear growing up has the power to shape our lives. As a kid, Cory Hunter attended Black churches in Brooklyn and Charlotte, North Carolina, and fell in love with gospel music. "When I hear ...

Let’s be real: you’ve probably been fooled once (or twice) when you were riding in the backseat of your grandmother‘s Buick on the way to church when an unsuspecting jam came through the car’s ...

Vermont ranks second in the nation for both the whitest population and the least religious one. This might seem the unlikeliest of places to hear Black gospel music — a tradition born of slavery, ...

NEW YORK (RNS) — On Sunday mornings in Brooklyn, nicknamed the borough of churches, the muffled sounds of choir singers, hand‑claps and Hammond organs can be heard from the sidewalks. The borough ...