RELIGION / African American & Black

Paper · Semantic Scholar

The COVID-19 pandemic exposed and intensified longstanding racial health inequities in the USA, disproportionately affecting African American communities with high burdens of chronic disease. This study examines how African American clergy in Houston, Texas, interpreted and responded to the convergence of COVID-19 and obesity-related vulnerability within their congregations, and how these conditions reshaped theolog…

Reference · Wikidata

Protestant churches that currently or historically have ministered to predominantly black congregations in the United States

Encyclopedia · Wikipedia

The Black church is the faith and body of Christian denominations and congregations in the United States that predominantly minister to, and are led by, African Americans, as well as these churches' collective traditions and members.

Book · DOAB

Temperance and Cosmopolitanism explores the nature and meaning of cosmopolitan freedom in the nineteenth century through a study of selected African American authors and reformers: William Wells Brown, Martin Delany, George Moses Horton, Frances E. W. Harper, and Amanda Berry Smith. Their voluntary travels, a reversal of the involuntary movement of enslavement, form the basis for a critical mode of cosmopolitan free…

Full text · Open Library

Readers will revel in the stories of barrier-breaking pioneers in all fields-arts, entertainment, business, civil rights, education, government, inventing, journalism, religion, science, sports, and more. And they will rejoice in their triumphs. With hundreds of illustrations and a daily calendar of firsts, Black Firsts is the culmination of many hours of work, courage, and perseverance, the exact qualities represen…

Image · DPLA

A black cotton-poly blend cassock by Abbey Brand. The cassock features a standing band collar made from one panel of black cotton-poly blend fabric that is self-lined and is top stitched along the top and bottom. The two front panels of black cotton poly fabric close center front with nine metal snap buttons, sewn to a 1.375” wide button placket. Each button placket is self-lined and top stitched.The cassock feature…