Turner said he got the idea from the Rev. Otis Moss III of Trinity United Church of Christ in Chicago, whose church also ...

Many African Americans did not think of themselves ... which remained affiliated with a white Episcopal denomination. These churches continued to grow. Historian Mary Sawyer notes that by 1810 ...

I think most of the major Black denominations, in terms of its membership, is divided,' said Bishop Reginald Jackson, leader ...

She hopes to help her denomination avoid the ... with concentrations in Social Studies and African American Studies. A year later, in 2004, the AME church voted to punish clergy members ...

In the late 1770s, George Lisle, an emancipated slave, became a Christian in his master’s church and later started the first African-American Baptist church in Georgia. He is also thought to be ...

Since then, African American churches continue to support ... where you had the African Methodist Episcopal Church denomination being founded in, I believe, the 1790s,” Tillery said.

Many African Americans did not think of themselves ... which remained affiliated with a white Episcopal denomination. These churches continued to grow. Historian Mary Sawyer notes that by 1810 ...

Francois said his denomination ... author of “Queering Black Churches: Dismantling Heteronormativity in African American Congregations,” as an “exceptional” example of someone who has ...