what many Black folks wore to church is also what they wore to protest, from Black men in three-piece suits and dress shoes to Black women with white dresses or dress suits and a hat, cocked to ...

The church has a long history of activism Despite the humor and subversion, Lamar sees the lawsuit as part of a long line of civil rights activism that has relied on the courts, from Black women who ...

After not being named a finalist, Marshall Turman sued the church and the search committee for gender discrimination in December 2023. No woman has ever been senior pastor of Abyssinian ...

When it comes to breaking out the Sunday best, no one does it like beautiful Black women ready to worship on Easter Sunday. Church serves as not only a place of refuge and worship for many African ...

In terms of culturally significant headgear, there are baseball caps, cowboy hats, and then, in a realm all their own, there are Black women’s church crowns. What gives these splendid hats their ...

YAOUNDÉ, Cameroon – “Why don’t we have women Cardinals in the Church?” quipped Sister Josée Ngalula, the first–ever African woman to be a member of the International Theological ...

Judge Dismisses Gender Bias Suit by Woman Who Lost Bid to Be Top Pastor of Famed Black Church NEW YORK (AP) — A federal judge has dismissed a gender discrimination lawsuit filed by a professor ...