AME Church
Faithful Black descendants hope reparations after Florida massacre will be a model
By Adelle M. Banks — December 23, 2020
(RNS) — ‘They left with nothing,’ said the leader of a Rosewood-related foundation. ‘Livestock was gone, houses burned to the ground, couldn’t go to church.’
Biden victory in hand, Black church get-out-the-vote workers assess the future
By Adelle M. Banks — November 25, 2020
(RNS) — Faith in Action, which mobilized for policies that empower Black Americans, noted down-ballot wins, such as passage of a $15 minimum wage in Florida.
Black church turnout effort mobilizes against alleged voter suppression
By Adelle M. Banks — September 29, 2020
(RNS) — Some groups previously ‘never worked this tightly together because the stakes are higher,’ one Black church network leader said.
Army makes history promoting Black woman chaplain to colonel
By Adelle M. Banks — September 3, 2020
(RNS) — Chaplain (Col.) Monica R. Lawson said: ‘just in case you didn’t figure it out, it took us 245 years for this moment to happen.’
Biden meets with black leaders at local church amid unrest
By Will Weissert and Alexandra Jaffe — June 1, 2020
WILMINGTON, Del. (AP) — If elected, he promised to "deal with institutional racism" and set up a police oversight body in his first 100 days in office.
Journalist Gwen Ifill remembered with stamp at her Washington church
By Adelle M. Banks — January 30, 2020
WASHINGTON (RNS) — Known for moderating election-season debates, Ifill was the daughter of parents who were from the Caribbean and became deeply involved in the AME Church.
How a national emergency order endangers the ‘other’
By Jonathan Perlman and Eric C Manning — February 20, 2019
(RNS) — The leaders of two congregations that have suffered violence incited by hate, we recognize the president's 'emergency' isn’t about an invasion, but the language of governmental overreach.
AME Church: Climate change disproportionately hurts blacks
By Adelle M. Banks — July 14, 2016
(RNS) The denomination, echoing Pope Francis and Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew, pointed to research that shows climate change has a negative impact on people of color.
AME Church continues 200-year journey toward racial justice
By Adelle M. Banks — July 7, 2016
(RNS) Two centuries later, members of the African Methodist Episcopal Church made another pilgrimage to Philadelphia for the denomination’s General Conference.
After fires, killings, black churches debate the best ways to protect themselves
By Adelle M. Banks — July 2, 2015
(RNS) Black church leaders debate: to arm, or not to arm?
What does it take to forgive someone like Dylann Roof? (COMMENTARY)
By Jonathan Merritt — June 22, 2015
(RNS) How does one muster the courage, the conviction, the moral fiber to grant such a gift to someone who has already taken so much?
Slain S.C. pastor Clementa Pinckney was ‘a giant, a legend’
By Matthew Diebel — June 18, 2015
Slain Rev. Clementa Pinckney, 41, of South Carolina was "a moral compass," said one colleague.
Deadly rampages: We have seen this before
By Susan Miller — June 18, 2015
Another mass shooting. This time it was a humble church, the oldest AME church in the South, where people had gathered for a prayer meeting.
Pastor who took a bullet paves her own way to Ferguson’s frontline
By Lilly Fowler — November 3, 2014
ST. CHARLES, Mo. (RNS) The Rev. Lamkin said she didn’t really have a plan when she ventured out to Ferguson but that “the whole being shot thing was probably the best thing that could have happened.”
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