Gisèle Pelicot's memoirs "A Hymn to Life" are her first account of her rape ordeal, the subsequent trial, waiving her right ...

The civil rights leader and Baptist pastor emeritus shared his love for the hymn at the start of the Tabernacle Choir’s tour ...

Kimpa Vita’s Theology (1704–1708): Dona Beatriz Kimpa Vita led the Antonian movement, proclaiming that Jesus and Mary were African and calling for unity against European domination. Her preaching ...

Mourners circled the Statehouse on Monday to honor the Rev. Jesse Jackson and say “thank you” to a civil rights icon whose activism for equality began in the Palmetto State.

Professors say the Black church helped enslaved people survive, powered civil rights, built schools and HBCUs, and preserved culture through spirituals and gospel.

Writing a comprehensive history of American Christianity is a mammoth undertaking that few historians attempt. It’s been more ...

This year, two arena-filling artists returned to the older civic function of song. Bruce Springsteen’s “Streets of Minneapolis” and U2’s elegiac “American Obituary,” written in response to immigration ...

Amanda Seyfried stars in Mona Fastvold’s latest historical tribute to a Christian sect in ‘The Testament of Ann Lee.’ ...

The prism of Black beauty turned and turned, and my mental vision board of heaven’s angels filled up with Dottie Peoples in the spangled armor of God, Mahalia Jackson’s elegant countenance, the Pace ...

A Worcester Black History Month concert celebrated storytelling, memory and the importance of learning from the past.

These Michigan towns offer a thoughtful way to explore Freedom Trail history through places tied to courage, resistance, and community memory.

The project would be inconceivable without a remarkable performance from an apparently possessed Amanda Seyfried. We first ...